Definitions
any of several marine food fishes related to cod
Word origin
From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca (“hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”). Related to hook.
Used in a sentence
“Hake is an expensive fish—and is also very vulnerable to damage by mis-handling.”
“The clay is taken direct from the bank and made into brick the right temper to place direct from the Machine in the hake on the yard. … take the brick direct from the Machine and put them in the hake to dry.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Codlike food fish”4 letters
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