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hale | heck |

As a noun hale

is , black pine (pinus nigra ) or hale can be awn, beard of grain.

As a proper noun heck is

a hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.

hale

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(-)
  • (archaic) Health, welfare.
  • * Spenser
    • All heedless of his dearest hale .

    Etymology 2

    Representing a Northern dialectal form of (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Last year we thought him strong and hale .
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
    • "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
    "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
    Antonyms
    * unhale
    Usage notes
    * Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase "hale and hearty".

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) halen, from (etyl) haler, from (etyl) ‘upright beam on a loom’). Doublet of (l).

    Verb

    (hal)
  • To drag, pull, especially forcibly.
  • * , II.6:
    • For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.
  • * 1820 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), , :
    • The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood.
  • *
    • He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance..
  • * 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:
    • They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.

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    heck

    English

    (wikipedia heck)

    Etymology 1

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (euphemistic) Hell.
    • What the heck are you doing?

    Noun

    (-)
  • (euphemistic) Hell.
    • You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
    Synonyms
    * See under hell.
    Derived terms
    * oh my heck

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Alternative forms

    * hack

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bolt or latch of a door.
  • A rack for cattle to feed at.
  • A door, especially one partly of latticework.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  • (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.
  • A bend or winding of a stream.

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