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   Hack , n. [See Hatch a half door.]
   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.
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   Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
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   Hack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hacked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hacking.] [OE. hakken, AS. haccian; akin to D. hakken, G. hacken, Dan. hakke, Sw. hacka, and perh. to E. hew. Cf. Hew to cut, Haggle.]
   To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
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   My sword hacked like a handsaw.
   Shak.
   
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   Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
   Shak.
   
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   (Computers) To program (a computer) for pleasure or compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer.
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   To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure. [Colloq.] 
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   Hack, v. t. (Football) To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
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   Hack, v. i. To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
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   Hack, n.
   A notch; a cut.
   Shak.
   
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   An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
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   A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
   Dr. H. More.
   
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   (Football) A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
   T. Hughes.
   
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   (Computers) A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion.
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   (Computers) A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem.
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   A taxicab. [informal]
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   Hack saw, a handsaw having a narrow blade stretched in an iron frame, for cutting metal.
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   Hack , n. [Shortened fr. hackney. See Hackney.]
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   A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
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   A coach or carriage let for hire; a hackney coach; formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; now, usually a taxicab.
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   On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
   Pope.
   
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   Hence: The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman.
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   A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
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   Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,
   Who long was a bookseller's hack.
   Goldsmith.
   
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   A procuress.
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   Hack, v. i. To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse; to ride at an ordinary pace, or over the roads, as distinguished from riding across country or in military fashion.
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   Hack, a. Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
   Wakefield.
   
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   Hack writer, a hack; one who writes for hire. “A vulgar hack writer.”
   Macaulay.
   
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   Hack, v. t.
   To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
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   To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
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   The word “remarkable” has been so hacked of late.
   J. H. Newman.
   
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    Hack, v. i.
    To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
    Hanmer.
    
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    To live the life of a drudge or hack.
    Goldsmith.
    
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    Heck , n. [See Hatch a half door.] [Written also hack.]
    The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
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    A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.]
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    A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door. [Prov. Eng.]
    Halliwell.
    
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    A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
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    (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.
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    A bend or winding of a stream. [Prov. Eng.]
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    Half heck, the lower half of a door. -- Heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart. -- Heck box or Heck frame, that which carries the heck in warping.
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    taxicab , n. an automobile with a professional driver which can be hired to carry passengers; -- also called a taxi, and informally called a cab or a hack. The driver of a taxicab is referred to as a cab driver or cabbie, and sometimes as a chauffeur or hackie. Taxicabs may be engaged by a prior appointment made, e.g. by telephone, or they may cruise for passengers, i.e. they may drive in city streets and stop to pick up pasengers when they are signalled by a prospective passenger. The act of signalling a taxicab (usually by a wave of the arm) is often called to hail a cab or to flag down a cab.
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