Heck

See also: heck

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk

Etymology 1

From German Heck, the surname.

Proper noun

Heck

1. A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Heck

1. , possibly from German.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Heck

1. A civil parish of Selby district, North Yorkshire, England, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
2. A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).

Derived terms

• Great Heck

Anagrams

• chek

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German

Etymology

From Middle Low German heck (“wooden fencing”). The sense “back of a ship” because the position of the helmsman in the stern was enclosed by such a fence. Cognate to Dutch hek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛk/

• Audio:

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Noun

Heck n (genitive Hecks or Heckes, plural Hecks or Hecke)

1. stern (of a ship)
2. tail (of an aeroplane)
3. back (of a car)

Usage notes

• The more common plural is Hecks.

Antonyms

• (stern, tail): Bug m (“bow”)
• (back of car): Front f (“front”)

Related terms

• Bootsheck
• Fließheck
• Heckbremse
• Heckfenster
• Heckklappe
• Heckleuchte
• Hecklicht
• Heckmotor
• Heckpropeller
• Heckrotor
• Heckscheibe
• Heckschraube
• Schiffsheck
• Schrägheck
• Steilheck
• Stufenheck

 

See also

• Backbord (ship)
• Steuerbord (ship)

Proper noun

Heck m or f (genitive Hecks)

1. a surname

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German heggia, from Proto-Germanic *hagjō. Cognate with German Hecke, Dutch heg, English hedge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæk/

Noun

Heck f (plural Hecken)

1. bush, hedge

Synonyms

• Ho