Hack

Hack - Other Definitions

• (n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
  
  
• (n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
  
  
• (v. t.) To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
  
  
• (v. t.) Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
  
  
• (v. i.) To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
  
  
• (n.) A notch; a cut.
  
  
• (n.) An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
  
  
• (n.) A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
  
  
• (n.) A kick on the shins.
  
  
• (n.) A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
  
  
• (n.) A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
  
  
• (n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
  
  
• (n.) A procuress.
  
  
• (a.) Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
  
  
• (v. t.) To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
  
  
• (v. t.) To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
  
  
• (v. i.) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
  
  
• (v. i.) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
  
  
• (a.) Rough or broken, as if hacked.
  
  
• (a.) Having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as, the hackly fracture of metallic iron.