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Jakes vs Hakes - What's the difference?

jakes | hakes |

As a noun jakes

is a privy or latrine.

As a proper noun Jakes

is {{surname|lang=en}.

As a verb hakes is

third-person singular of hake.

jakes

English

Etymology 1

Noun

  • (dated) A privy or latrine.
  • *
    • whereas the truth-finder, having raked out that jakes , his own mind, and being there capable of tracing no ray of divinity, nor anything virtuous or good, or lovely, or loving, very fairly, honestly, and logically concludes that no such things exist in the whole creation.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)

    • hakes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hake)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    hake

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) *. Related to (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hook; a pot-hook.
  • A kind of weapon; a pike.
  • (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.

    • 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)
  • One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera , Merluccius , and allies.
    • Synonyms
    * codling, squirrel hake
    Hyponyms
    * (gadoid fish) European hake (Merluccius merluccius ), American silver hake, whiting (

    Etymology 3

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
  • * 1882 , P. L. Sword & Son, Sword's Improved Patent Brick Machine'', in the ''Adrian City Directories :
    • 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

  • (UK, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.
  • * 1886 , English Dialect Society, Publications: Volume 52
    • She'd as well been at school as haking about.
    (Webster 1913) English nouns with irregular plurals ----