Definition of hack

What does the word hack mean?

• part of speech: verb transitive, intransitive

  Cut, notch, mangle; kick shin of (opponent at football); deal cutting blows at; emit short dry coughs; a hacking (short dry frequent) cough. [middle English]

• part of speech: verb transitive, intransitive

  Make common, hackney; ride (horse), ride on horseback, on road at ordinary pace.

• part of speech: noun

  Mattock; miner\'s pick; gash, wound, esp. from kick with toe of boot. [Greek]

• part of speech: noun

  Board on which hawk\'s meat is laid; (of eyas hawk) be at h. (not allowed to prey for itself); frame for drying bricks.

• part of speech: noun

  Horse let out for hire; jade; horse for ordinary riding; common drudge (also attrib., as h. writer).