Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hack"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, v. i.
To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse; to ride at an
ordinary pace, or over the roads, as distinguished from
riding across country or in military fashion.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, v. t. (Football)
To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, n. (Football)
A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, n. [See {Hatch} a half door.]
1. A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for
drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle;
a grating in a mill race, etc.
2. Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hacked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hacking}.] [OE. hakken; akin to D. hakken, G. hacken, Dan.
hakke, Sw. hacka, and perh. to E. hew. Cf. {Hew} to cut,
{Haggle}.]
1. To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to
notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting
instrument; as, to hack a post.
My sword hacked like a handsaw. --Shak.
2. Fig.: To mangle in speaking. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, a.
Hackneyed; hired; mercenary. --Wakefield.
{Hack writer}, a hack; one who writes for hire. ``A vulgar
hack writer.'' --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, v. t.
1. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
2. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render
trite and commonplace.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, v. i.
1. To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to
turn prostitute. --Hanmer.
2. To live the life of a drudge or hack. --Goldsmith.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, v. i.
To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken
manner; as, a hacking cough.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, n.
1. A notch; a cut. --Shak.
2. An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in
breaking stone.
3. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
--Dr. H. More.
4. (Football) A kick on the shins. --T. Hughes.
{Hack saw}, a handsaw having a narrow blade stretched in an
iron frame, for cutting metal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hack \Hack\, n. [Shortened fr. hackney. See {Hackney}.]
1. A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a
horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as
distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
2. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach
with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
--Pope.
3. A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary
work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who
long was a bookseller's hack. --Goldsmith.
4. A procuress.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Heck \Heck\, n. [See {Hatch} a half door.] [Written also
{hack}.]
1. The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.]
3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called
also {heck door}. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. (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. A bend or winding of a stream. [Prov. Eng.]
{Half heck}, the lower half of a door.
{Heck board}, the loose board at the bottom or back of a
cart.
{Heck} {box or frame}, that which carries the heck in
warping.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hack
n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: {drudge}, {hacker}]
2: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a
political party for private rather than public ends [syn:
{machine politician}, {ward-heeler}, {political hack}]
3: a mediocre and disdained writer [syn: {hack writer}, {literary
hack}]
4: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers
where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: {cab}, {taxi},
{taxicab}]
5: an old or over-worked horse [syn: {jade}, {nag}, {plug}]
6: a horse kept for hire
7: a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport
etc.
v 1: cut with a tool [syn: {chop}]
2: informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't
hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the
office" [syn: {cut}]
3: cut away
4: kick on the arms; in basketball
5: kick on the shins; in rugby
6: fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not
very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" [syn: {hack
on}]
7: significantly cut up a manuscript [syn: {cut up}]
8: cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking
all day" [syn: {whoop}]
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