hask

English

Etymology 1

See hassock.

Noun

hask (plural hasks)

1. (obsolete) A basket made of flags or rushes, as for carrying fish.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso:

     But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.

   • 1621, Davisons Poems, Or, A Poeticall Rapsodie‎, 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

References

• “hask”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Verb

hask (third-person singular simple present hasks, present participle hasking, simple past and past participle hasked)

1. 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."

Anagrams

• Kash, Kash., Khas, Shak, akhs