† behackv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To hack about.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > cut roughly in order to damage
hacka1200
mangle1528
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to rip up1567
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1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse Epist. to Martiall sig. Aiij The blade it self is al to be hackt.
1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xii. 143 My sword like a saw, all to behack't and hew'd.
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