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1 [hek]
–interjection
| 1. | (used as a mild expression of annoyance, rejection, disgust, etc.): What the heck do you care? |
–noun
—Idiom| 2. | something remarkable of its kind (usually used in the phrase heck of a): That was a heck of an impressive speech. Have one heck of a good time. |
| 3. | as heck (used as a mild intensifier): I say he's guilty as heck. |
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2 [hek]
–noun
| 1. | a comblike attachment on a loom, for guiding the warp threads as they are dressed for the warp beam. |
| 2. | a device that guides yarn onto the bobbin of a spinning wheel. |
| 3. | a gridlike arrangement of glass or metal rods below the hooks on a Jacquard loom, used for lifting all harness eyes equally or evenly. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Heck
Heck\, n. [See Hatch a half door.] [Written also hack.]1. The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.] 3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish. 5. (Weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine. 6. A bend or winding of a stream. [Prov. Eng.] Half heck, the lower half of a door. Heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart. Heck box or frame, that which carries the heck in warping.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Heck
Spanish:
jolín; demonios,
German:
verdammt,
Japanese:
一体全体、どえらい
heck
euphemistic alteration of hell, first recorded 1865.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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