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▪ I. † hask, haske, n. Obs.
[cf. hassock 3.]
(See quot. 1579.)
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Nov. 16 Phoebus..hath..taken vp his ynne in Fishes haske [gloss., a haske is a wicker pad, wherein they vse to cary fish]. 1598Florio, Cauagna,..a fishers basket, or haske. 1611Davison Poems 38 (N.) The joyfull sunne, whom cloudy winter's spight Had shut from us in watry fishes haske.
▪ II. hask, a. Now dial.|hɑːsk, -æ-|
[app. a by-form of harsk, northern form of harsh.]
Rough and hard to the touch or taste, esp. from the absence of moisture; coarse and dry. Also used as adv.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. vii. 124 Al hugely and haske [L. rauce]. c1440Promp. Parv. 228/2 Harske or haske, as sundry frutys, stipticus, poriticus. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. M ij b, Curled and adorned after the same manner by Spar, but hask and dry, and of no pleasant Colour at all. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Hask, coarse, harsh, rough, parched..A hask wind is keen and parching..Coarse worsted is hask to the feeling. 1828Craven Dial. s.v., ‘Hask grass’, rough, coarse grass. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Hask, deficient in moisture. ‘Hask bread’, oft said to be as ‘hask as chopped hay’. 1885F. H. Bowman Struct. Wool Gloss. 354 Hask, dry and hard or unpliable.
b. fig. Harsh in sound, tone, or manner. Sc.
1594A. Hume Hymns, etc. Ep. to Rdr., Rude Scottish and hask verses. 1643R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) II. 63 The petition of the Londoners got so hask and insnareing an answer.
c. Dry, husky: as a cough.
a1722Lisle Husb. 343 They have in Wilts a disease on their cows, which they call a hask or husky cough.
▪ III. hask
obs. form of ask.
a1300Cursor M. 26465, I hask þe þen if it be nede. |