Hackbut and Hack

noun

• An obsolete firearm with a long barrel.
  • synonyms: arquebus, harquebus, hagbut

noun

• One who works hard at boring tasks.
  • synonyms: drudge, hacker
• A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
  • synonyms: machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack
• A mediocre and disdained writer.
  • synonyms: hack writer, literary hack
• A tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil.
• A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.
  • synonyms: cab, taxi, taxicab
• An old or over-worked horse.
  • synonyms: jade, nag, plug
• A horse kept for hire.
• A saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc..

verb

• Cut with a hacking tool.
  • synonyms: chop
• Be able to manage or manage successfully.
  • usage: "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
  • synonyms: cut
• Cut away.
  • usage: "he hacked his way through the forest"
• Kick on the arms.
• Kick on the shins.
• Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works.
  • usage: "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
  • synonyms: hack on
• Significantly cut up a manuscript.
  • synonyms: cut up
• Cough spasmodically.
  • usage: "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"
  • synonyms: whoop

• (n.) A kick on the shins.
• (v.i.) To cough faintly and frequently or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
• (n.) A procuress.
• (v.t.) To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
• (n.) A notch; a cut.
• (n.) A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
• (v.t.) To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
• (n.) A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
• (v.i.) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
• (v.t.) Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
• (n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
• (a.) Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
• (n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.i.) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
• (n.) An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
• (v.t.) To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
• (n.) A kick on the shins or a cut from a kick.
• (v.i.) To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse; to ride at an ordinary pace or over the roads, as distinguished from riding across country or in military fashion.
• (v.t.) To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).