heck

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. interj. Used as a mild oath.
2. n. Slang Used as an intensive: had a heck of a lot of money; was crowded as heck.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A door with an open or latticework panel, or having its upper part hinged independently of the lower part.
2. n. A latticed gate.
3. n. A rack for holding fodder for cattle.
4. n. A contrivance for catching fish, made in the form of latticework or grating: as, a salmon-heck.
5. n. In weaving, one of two or more vertical frames with gratings having eyes for receiving the warp-threads, each eye receiving one thread of the warp, and the alternate vertical motion of the gratings separating the warp-threads to form an opening or shed for the passage of the shuttle.
6. n. A latch or bolt, for fastening a door.
7. n. The bend or winding of a stream.

Wiktionary

1. interj. euphemistic Hell.
2. n. euphemistic Hell.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Prov. Eng. The bolt or latch of a door.
2. n. Prov. Eng. A rack for cattle to feed at.
3. n. Prov. Eng. A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.
4. n. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. n. (Weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
6. n. Prov. Eng. A bend or winding of a stream.
7. n. colloq. hell; -- a euphemism. Used commonly in the phrase “What the heck”.