Heck

• IPA^(key): /hɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk

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.

English, Dutch and south German surname, all from words meaning "hedge," "enclosure," "fence," from *haggju. Compare Van Heck, Hatch.

Heck

1. A surname, possibly from German.

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).

• Great Heck

• chek

From Middle Low German heck (“wooden fencing”), from Old Saxon *hekki, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju. 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, English hatch.

• IPA^(key): /hɛk/

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Heck n (strong, genitive Hecks or Heckes, plural Hecks or (less common) Hecke)

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

• The more common plural is Hecks.

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

• Backbord (ship)
• Steuerbord (ship)

Heck m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hecks or (with an article) Heck, feminine genitive Heck, plural Hecks)

1. a surname

• “Heck” in Duden online
• “Heck” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Heck” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Heck” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Heck on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Middle High German hegge, from Old High German heggia, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju. Cognate with German Hecke, Dutch heg, English hedge.

• IPA^(key): /hæk/

Heck f (plural Hecken)

1. bush, hedge

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