dictionary help1. The bolt or latch of a door.
2. A rack for cattle to feed at.
3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; called also heck door.
4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
6. A bend or winding of a stream. Half heck, the lower half of a door. Heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart. Heck box or frame, that which carries the heck in warping.
Alternative forms: hack.
(01 Mar 1998)
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