hake

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of various marine food fishes of the genera Merluccius and Urophycis, related to and resembling the cod.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A hook; specifically, a pot-hook.
2. n. A kind of weapon; a pike.
3. n. plural The draft-irons of a plow.
4. n. A gadoid fish of the family Merluciidæ, Merlucius smiridus or vulgaris, related to and resembling a cod, found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe. It has a short triangular first dorsal fin, elongated sinuated second dorsal and anal fins, and complete ventrals. It is voracious in habits and little esteemed for the table. The name is extended to other species of the genus, as M. bilinearis, the silver hake of New England, and M. productus, the merluccio of California. See Merlucius.
5. n. A gadoid fish of the genus Phycis, common along the Atlantic coast of North America, as P. chuss, P. tenuis, and P. regius, recognized by the reduction of the ventral fins to two or three filamentous rays. These correspond to the English P. blennioides, the hake's-dame or forkbeard. They are all known as codlings, and some are called squirrel-hakes.
6. n. A gadoid fish of New Zealand, Lotella rhacinus, which has flattened ventrals of 6 rays, and a short anterior and long graduated second dorsal and anal fins.
7. To fish for hake; engage in the hake-fishery: as, a haking vessel, voyage, or crew.
8. n. A frame for holding cheeses.
9. n. A rack for horses or cattle to feed at.
10. n. A drying-shed in a tile-making establishment.
11. To go about idly or draggingly; loiter about.
12. To drag along idly.
13. To carry off by force; kidnap.
14. n. A lazy person who strolls about in search of what he can pick up, instead of working.
15. n. A forward, tattling woman.

Wiktionary

1. n. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
2. n. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
3. n. A hook; a pot-hook.
4. n. A kind of weapon; a pike.
5. n. (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
6. v. UK, dialect To loiter; to sneak.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
2. n. (Zoöl.) One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is Merlucius vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is Merlucius bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and Phycis tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and codling.
3. v. Prov. Eng. To loiter; to sneak.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any of several marine food fishes related to cod
2. n. the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod