hake

noun

1. A hook; a pot-hook.
2. A kind of weapon; a pike.
3. (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
4. 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.”

   “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.”

5. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.

   “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.”

name

1. A surname.