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s | heck |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

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.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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.