What is the name meaning of HECK. Phrases containing HECK
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English
English : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle English hekel ‘to comb (flax or hemp) with a heckle’.South German : occupational name for someone who used a small hoe, from a diminutive of Middle High German hacke hoe + the agent suffix -er.German : variant of Häckler (see Hackler).
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North German
North German : occupational name for a peddler (see Haack 1).North German : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedge (see Heck 2).North German : perhaps also a topographic name from hach, hack ‘dirty, boggy water’.Frisian, Dutch, and North German : from a Frisian personal name, Hake.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from Yiddish hak ‘axe’.English : variant of Hake 1.George Hack (c. 1623–c. 1665) was born in Cologne, Germany, of a Schleswig-Holstein family, and emigrated to New Amsterdam where he practiced medicine and entered the VA tobacco trade. Colony records show that he and his wife, Anna, were formally made naturalized citizens of VA in 1658. He had two daughters, neither of whom married, and two sons: George Nicholas Hack, the founder of the Norfolk branch of the family; and Peter, for many years a member of the VA House of Burgesses, the founder of the Maryland branch. Hack’s descendants eventually changed the spelling of the name to Heck.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a gate or ‘hatch’ (especially one leading into a forest), northern Middle English heck (Old English hæcc), or a habitational name from Great Heck in North Yorkshire, which is named with this word. Compare Hatch.German : topographic name from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’. This name is common in southern Germany and the Rhineland.Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Hec(q), a topographic name from Old French hec ‘gate’, ‘barrier’, ‘fence’ (compare 1), or a habitational name from a place named with this word.Shortened form of the Dutch surname van (den) Hecke, a habitational name from any of several places called ten Hekke in the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders.
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English (Cheshire)
English (Cheshire) : from Middle English hekel ‘heckle’, an implement for combing or scutching flax or hemp for spinning, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used heckles.French (Alsace; Hecklé) : from a diminutive of German Heck 2.
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Scottish
Scottish pet form of Latin Hector, HECKIE means "defend; hold fast."
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English (Leicestershire)
English (Leicestershire) : habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
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English short form of Latin Hector, HECK means "defend; hold fast."
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A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.
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A rack for cattle to feed at.
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Same as Hackle.
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The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus).
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A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
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A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
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An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.
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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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The bolt or latch of a door.
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A bend or winding of a stream.
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A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.