Heck vs Huck - What's the difference?
heck | huck |
(euphemistic) Hell.
The bolt or latch of a door.
A rack for cattle to feed at.
A door, especially one partly of latticework.
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.
(Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a long way
(informal) to throw or chuck
(mountain biking) To gain extra height from a jump by compressing the springs just before the take-off
(mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy way.
(whitewater kayaking) To paddle off of a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
(dated) To haggle in trading.
(snowboarding, skiing) To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
(Ultimate Frisbee) Long throw, generally at least half a field or more.
(skiing, snowboarding) a drop or jump off of a cliff or cornice
As nouns the difference between heck and huck
is that heck is hell while huck is long throw, generally at least half a field or more.As an interjection heck
is hell.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.As a verb huck is
to throw a long way.heck
English
(wikipedia heck)Etymology 1
Noun
(-)- You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
Synonyms
* See under hell.Derived terms
* oh my heckEtymology 2
See .Alternative forms
* hackNoun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
External links
* * * ----huck
English
Verb
- He was so angry he hucked the book at my face.
- Longer forks make the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck off of more stuff.
- If you huck it (the take-off), you'll drop about 20 feet.
- I hucked a sweet 25 foot waterfall on the Tomata River.
- Dude go huck that cornice!
