Hack

A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.

To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.

Fig.: To mangle in speaking.

To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.

A notch; a cut.

An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.

A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

A kick on the shins.

A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.

A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.

A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

A procuress.

Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.

To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.

To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.

To live the life of a drudge or hack.

a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

a horse kept for hire

an old or over-worked horse