hack

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v

1. cut, cut down, hew, saw down, fell, chop, chop down, splinter; lop off, truncate, butcher, amputate, detach, remove; trim, clip, dock, snip, nip, snap; shear, crop, (of the hair) bob.

2. gash, slash, Archaic. carbonado, tear into, lance, slit, slice; notch, ridge; sever, abscind, split, cleave, sunder; rend, rive, tear, rip.

3. mutilate, mangle, lacerate, damage, destroy; shatter, smash, batter, break, fracture; disfigure, scar, deface; spoil, mark, spot, stain, blemish.

4. cough, Inf. bark, choke, gasp.

n

5. cut, gash, slash, tear, score, scotch; notch, nick, indentation, dent, cleft, chink, serration; incision, kerf, slice, slot, slit, rift; split, crack, rent, fissure, crevice.

6. ax, hatchet, broadax, maul, mattock, pickax, pick, adz, Archaic. celt; cleaver, hewer, chopper, cutter; battle-ax, poleax; sickle, scythe.

7. short broken cough, smoker's cough, Inf. bark, rasp, gasp.

8. stammer, stutter, faltering, hesitation, speech block, speech impediment.

II

n

1. work horse, hired horse, draft horse, dray horse, cart horse, plow horse, thill horse, pack horse, Archaic. sumpter, carriage horse, pad, hackney; jade, worn-out horse, tired old horse, padnag, crock, Inf. rip, nag, Sl. skate, Sl. screw, rosinante, U.S. Sl. plug.

2. literary drudge, word-seller, penny-a-liner, grub-street writer, scribbler, ghost writer.

3. mercenary, hireling, free lance, adventurer.

4. drudge, plodder, toiler, Sl. grind, plugger; common laborer, slave, factotum; menial, flunky, fag, Inf. sucker.

5.U.S. hackney, taxicab, taxi, cab.

v

6. let out for hire, lease, rent, lend.

7. hackney, make dull or trite, overuse, overdo; weaken, obtund, deaden, make less pungent.

adj

8. hired, leased, rented, chartered, employed; subservient, servile, menial, degrading.

9. hackneyed, trite, commonplace, banal. See hackneyed.