Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as hake.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A sea fish. See hake.

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Examples

  • I calculate another cool hundred on cod, haak, etc.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • On a recent visit, that included tender seekh kebabs, made with lamb and roasted with cumin and chili; moist lamb kofta in an oily pool of tomato and chili sauce; and haak saag, a dark, leafy green popular in Kashmir that was simply stir-fried.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • On a recent visit, that included tender seekh kebabs, made with lamb and roasted with cumin and chili; moist lamb kofta in an oily pool of tomato and chili sauce; and haak saag, a dark, leafy green popular in Kashmir that was simply stir-fried.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • We could then get six or eight shillings every morning from the pastime of washing that number of bottles, filling them with fresh milk and carrying them down to the wagons; there was always such an abundance of the liquid that our shepherd's hunting dog could not possibly miss what we took, for while the flocks were feeding on the luscious buds of the haak-doorns and the orange-coloured blossoms of the rich mimosa and other wild vegetation that abounded on the banks of the Vaal River, the cows, similarly engaged, were gathering more and more milk.

    Chapter IV Solomon Tshekisho 1916

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