hack

hack has 34 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

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.