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haca
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haca
. 'For Gl. Mett. 658 substitute :-- Haca (haᵤca, 87, 1559) pessul, Txts. 88, 803, and add: Perhaps the word occurs in the following :-- On hacapenn foreweard . . . on hacapenn foreweardne, C. D. iii. 412, 2, 14, An hacan penne, v. 238, 30. On hacan pundfold, of hacan pundfalde (haccan is the form in the MS. printed C. D. B. iii. 395, 18), vi. 41, 24. Here there might be reference to the enclosures being bolted, or to their construction with hurdles, cf. hæc, and see hake in N. E. D. [O. L. Ger. haco uncus.]
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haca
, an; m. A hook [?], bolt or bar of a door; pessulus, Gl. Mett. 658. [Icel. haki : Dan. hage : Swed. hake a hook : O. H. Ger. hako, hakko uncinus, furca : Ger. haken a hook, clasp : and cf. Icel. haka the chin.] See Skeat's Dict. hake, hatch, hackle.
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