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1225–6 in C. M. Woolgar Househ. Accts. Medieval Eng. (1992) I. 128 Hake xviii d. Salmo xii d. Flundre et anguille iiii d.

a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 97 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 119 Gynggaudy. Take the poke and the lyuour of haddok, codlyng, and hake, and of ooþer fisshe.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 273 A fysshe..whiche wee caule haddockes or hakes.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 212 Hake you may haue when the Cod failes in Summer.

1699 R. Sibbald Provision for Poor iii. 23 The Sea Bream, the Sand Eel, the Hake,..the Heckleback, [etc.].

1739 London & Country Jrnl. 15 May That Bank, and the Sea-Coast adjacent, abounding with great Store of Cod, Hake, Ling, Turbet, and other choice Fish.

1842 J. E. De_Kay Nat. Hist. N.Y. 282 The European Hake is abundant on the west coast of Ireland.

1885 Standard Nat. Hist. III. 275 The popular name current in England is hake, but in the United States the prefix ‘silver’ is generally added, to distinguish it from the species of Phycis... It is also frequently called whiting, New England whiting, or Old England hake.

1921 G. C. L. Howell Ocean Res. & Great Fisheries xx. 109 Hake are ‘easily scared’; ‘very sensitive to heavy fishing’; ‘easily fished out’—and so forth.

1970 E. J. March Inshore Craft Great Brit. II. v. 195 Until well after the mid-nineteenth century hake from its abundance was classed [in Cornwall] as 'rabble'.

2007 Tate Etc. Spring 105/2 Later the bottom-living white fishes such as hake, redfish and cod showed unmistakable signs of reproductive failure.