hask
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
See hassock.
Noun edit
hask (plural hasks)
- (obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A basket made of flags or rushes, as for carrying fish.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Aegloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC, folio 44, verso:
- 1621, Davisons Poems, Or, A Poeticall Rapsodie[1], London: Printed by B. A. for Roger Iackson, III.VII.6, page 176:
- The ioyfull Sunne, whom cloudy winters ſpight,/ Had ſhut from vs in watry fiſhes haske, / Returnes againe to lend the world his light
- a. 1650, Phineas Fletcher, “The Works of P. Fletcher: To my beloved Cousin, W. R. Esquire. Calend. Januar.”, in Robert Anderson, editor, Poets of Great Britain, volume IV, london: Printed for John & Arthur Arch, published 1795, page 462, lines 19–20:
- Then till the ſun, which yet in fiſhes haſks, / Or watry urn, impounds his fainting head
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hask”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
hask (third-person singular simple present hasks, present participle hasking, simple past and past participle hasked)
- Pronunciation spelling of ask.
- 1897, James Barnes, “Chapter 13”, in A Princetonian:
- "You never mind me," returned the trainer, who had been carrying around a couple of spare footballs all the morning, as if afraid some one would steal them. "You just play your 'ardest, that's hall I hask of you."