HACK
Hack, n. Etym: [See Hatch a half door.]
1. A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
2. Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
HACK
Hack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Hacking.] Etym:
[OE. hakken; akin to D. hakken, G. hacken, Dan. hakke, Sw. hacka, and
perh. to E. hew. Cf. Hew to cut, Haggle.]
1. To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post. My sword hacked like a handsaw. Shak.
2. Fig.: To mangle in speaking. Shak.
HACK
Hack, v. i.
Defn: To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
HACK
Hack, n.
1. A notch; a cut. Shak.