hask

noun

1. (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.”

   “The ioyfull Sunne, whom cloudy winters ſpight,/ Had ſhut from vs in watry fiſhes haske, / Returnes againe to lend the world his light”

   “Then till the ſun, which yet in fiſhes haſks, / Or watry urn, impounds his fainting head”

verb

1. (alt-of, 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."”