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noun

Heck n. (Written also hack)

The bolt or latch of a door. (Prov. Eng.)

A rack for cattle to feed at. (Prov. Eng.)

A door, especially one partly of latticework; called also heck door. (Prov. Eng.)

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. (Prov. Eng.)

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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Etymology of 'Heck'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heck" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Sahara Desert, overflowed an easy-chair. The room was filled, or what space Thor left, with the Bannister eleven, second-team players, Coach Corridan, and several students; on the campus a riotous crowd of Bannister youths "raised merry Heck," as Hicks phrased it, and their cheer floated up ...

— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... Heck, and Capt. Thomas Webb were the germ from which, in the good providence of God, has sprung the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The first chapel was erected upon leased ground on John Street, New York City, in 1768. The ground was purchased in 1770. ...

— History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George Washington Williams

... "By heck!" he cried, "I forgot THAT, too! But that wouldn't cost much. Look what we did in that ravine just for fun. Why, we could build ...

— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter

... "By heck! my survey is worth three times that. When your company planks down fifty thousand in cold cash we will trade,—not before. Then I will buy one of them blue grass farms in sight of the distant blue mountains ...

— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt

... dull thud and feel the vibration of the bursting shells. For want of anything better to pass the time away the men began to air their opinions about the war to each other. 'We're winning!' 'Are we heck as like; Billy's winning. Judging from t'newspapers you'd think t'war was over long since! They keep telling us he's beat; but they want to come out 'ere and see for 'emselves.... They say t'last seven years'll be t'worst!' Such was the ...

— At Ypres with Best-Dunkley • Thomas Hope Floyd

... that elevator was a heck of a lot more fun than riding down. The elevator whipped up like mad, the floor pressed against the soles of my feet, and it felt almost like good old Earth for a second or two there. But then the elevator stopped, and I held on tight to the hand-grips to keep ...

— The Risk Profession • Donald Edwin Westlake