[heyk] 
) hake, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) hakes. | 1. | any marine fish of the genus Merluccius, closely related to the cods, esp. M. bilinearis, found off the New England coast. |
| 2. | any of several related marine fishes, esp. of the genus Urophycis. |
| hake (hāk) n. pl. hake or hakes Any of various marine food fishes of the genera Merluccius and Urophycis, related to and resembling the cod. [Middle English, possibly from Old English haca, hook (from the shape of its lower jaw); see keg- in Indo-European roots.] |
