Haca
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - haca
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- haca
- 'For Gl. Mett. 658 substitute :-- Haca (haeca, 87, 1559) pessul, Txts. 88, 803, and add: Perhaps the word occurs in the following :-- On hacapenn foreweard . . . on hacapenn foreweardne, C. D. iii. 412, 2, 14, An hacan penne, is the form in the MS. printed C. D. B. iii. 395, 18), vi. 41, 24. Here there might be reference to the enclosures being bolted, or to their construction with hurdles, cf. hæc, and see hake in N. E. D. [O. L. Ger. haco uncus.] haca