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hake

[heyk]
–noun, plural (especially collectively) 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.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME; special use of OE haca hook; cf. MLG haken kipper salmon
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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.]
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Word Origin & History

hake 
c.1310, probably from O.E. haca "a hook" (in hacod "pike" the fish), or O.N. haki "hook," from the shape of its jaw.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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