hask meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

hask

noun

Etymology See hassock.

Obsolete A basket made of flags or rushes, as for carrying fish.

But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso:
The ioyfull Sunne, whom cloudy winters ſpight,/ Had ſhut from vs in watry fiſhes haske, / Returnes againe to lend the world his light1621, Davisons Poems, Or, A Poeticall Rapsodie, London: Printed by B. A. for Roger Iackson, III.VII.6, page 176:

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Then till the ſun, which yet in fiſhes haſks, / Or watry urn, impounds his fainting heada. 1650, Phineas Fletcher, “The Works of P. Fletcher: To my beloved Cousin, W. R. Esquire. Calend. Januar.”, in Robert Anderson, editor, Poets of Great Britain, volume IV, london: Printed for John & Arthur Arch, published 1795, page 462, lines 19–20:

verb

Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of ask.

"You never mind me," returned the trainer, who had been carrying around a couple of spare footballs all the morning, as if afraid some one would steal them. "You just play your 'ardest, that's hall I hask of you."1897, James Barnes, “Chapter 13”, in A Princetonian: