Hack

hak, n. a hackney, esp. a poor and jaded one any person overworked on hire a literary mCte mGte m50n than. 228 Hackle drudge, —adj. hackney, hired.—v.t. to offer for hire to use roughly. [Contr. of Hackney cf. Oab.j Hackle, hak^, n an instrument with hooks or iron teeth for sorting hemp or flax any flimsy substance unspun a feather in a cock’s neck a hook and fly for angling, dre ed with this feather. [Dut. kekel, dun of haak, a hook akin to Ger. kechel—kaken, E. Hook.]