Hake vs Wahoo - What's the difference?
hake | wahoo |
A hook; a pot-hook.
A kind of weapon; a pike.
(in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera , Merluccius , and allies.
A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
* 1882 , P. L. Sword & Son, Sword's Improved Patent Brick Machine'', in the ''Adrian City Directories :
(UK, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.
* 1886 , English Dialect Society, Publications: Volume 52
As nouns the difference between hake and wahoo
is that hake is a hook; a pot-hook while wahoo is species: Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.As a verb hake
is to loiter; to sneak.As a proper noun Wahoo is
a ghost town in California.hake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *. Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) hake, probably a shortened form (due to Scandinavian influence) of English dialectal . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* codling, squirrel hakeHyponyms
* (gadoid fish) European hake (Merluccius merluccius ), American silver hake, whiting (Etymology 3
(en)Noun
(en noun)- The clay is taken direct from the bank and made into brick the right temper to place direct from the Machine in the hake' on the yard. [...] take the brick direct from the Machine and put them in the ' hake to dry.
Etymology 4
Verb
- She'd as well been at school as haking about.
