hake
nounEtymology From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to North Germanic influence) of English dialectal haked (“pike”). Compare Norwegian hakefisk (“trout, salmon”), Middle Low German haken (“kipper”). More at haked.
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One of several species of saltwater gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
- Hake is an expensive fish—and is also very vulnerable to damage by mis-handling.1964 October, P. Baxter, “Fleetwood is sceptical of BR's fish train plan”, in Modern Railways, page 255:
- Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
- Derived terms
- hakelike