Shakes vs Hakes - What's the difference?
shakes | hakes |
(en-plural noun)
(plurale tantum) A pattern of behavior including twitches, tics and spasms typical of withdrawal from addiction; usually following the .
(hake)
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 verbs the difference between shakes and hakes
is that shakes is (shake) while hakes is (hake).As a noun shakes
is .shakes
English
Noun
(head)- [Recovering video game addicts] also have sleep disorders, the shakes and numbness in their hands. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/05/china_net_addicts/]
- When researchers either stopped the diet or administered an opioid blocker, the rats showed signs common to drug withdrawal, such as teeth-chattering and the shakes . [http://apu.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_sugarAddiction]
hakes
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----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.