hake
pronunciation
How to pronounce hake in British English:
UK [heɪk]
How to pronounce hake in American English:
US [heɪk]
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- Noun:
- the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod
- any of several marine food fishes related to cod
Word Origin
- hake
- hake: see hook
- hake (n.)
- type of sea fish, late 13c., probably from Old English haca "a hook, door-fastening" (related to hacod "pike" the fish), or from cognate Old Norse haki "hook;" in either case the fish so called from the shape of its jaw; both from Proto-Germanic *hakan (cognate with Dutch hake "hook"), from PIE root *keg- "hook, tooth" (see hook (n.)).
Example
- 1. She wasn 't even on diet for haven 's hake .
- 2. You get to hake movies !
- 3. Fishpoptrace researchers looked at four economically important , and thus overfished , species : cod , hake , herring and sole .
- 4. In 2004 , for instance , a british royal commission described in bleak detail the collapse of north-east atlantic cod , of north sea hake and plaice , and of other species discarded as " bycatch " and thrown back dead into the sea in huge numbers .
- 5. The chips for cod , hake , herring and sole could be available for commercial use within months , with chips for other species to be rolled out within a year .