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heck

Short definition from Wiktionary

Interjection

  1. Hell.

Noun

  1. Hell.
  2. The bolt or latch of a door.
  3. A rack for cattle to feed at.
  4. A door, especially one partly of latticework.
  5. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  6. An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
  7. A bend or winding of a stream.

Verb

  1. to break, to destroy
  2. to mess up

Proper noun

  1. A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.
  2. A surname, possibly from German.
  3. A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
  4. A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).

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