Hack: Definition and part of speech

Hack

  1. n. Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
  2. n. 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.
  3. v. t. Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
  4. v. i. To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
  5. n. A notch; a cut.
  6. n. An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
  7. n. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
  8. n. A kick on the shins.
  9. n. 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.
  10. n. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
  11. 1n. 1 Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
  12. 1n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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