Definition of heck

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Heck (n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine..

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Checkrein :: Checkrein (n.) A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
Check :: Check (n.) Small chick or crack.
Stop :: Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction..
Wahabee :: Wahabee (n.) A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India..
Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..
Checking :: Checking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chec.
Counterchange :: Counterchange (v. t.) To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2..
Freck :: Freck (v. t.) To checker; to diversify.
Check :: Check (a.) Checkered; designed in checks.
Hatchel :: Hatchel (n.) An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
Head :: Head (v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship..
Gravel :: Gravel (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
Tension :: Tension (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness..
Catastaltic :: Catastaltic (a.) Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities.
Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
Control :: Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control..
Checkwork :: Checkwork (n.) Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
Counterchecking :: Counterchecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterchec.
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