Hacking

Adjective

 * 1) Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.
 * A hacking cough. A hacking laugh. A hacking breath. A hacking cry.
 * A more hacking and harrowing cough I have never heard.
 * Anise will diminish the most hacking cough to where it is no longer irritating.

Derived terms

 * hacking cough
 * hackingly

Noun

 * 1)  Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network.
 * 2)  A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
 * 3)  A kick in the shins.
 * 4)  The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
 * 5)  A riding or journey on horseback. (Plural hackings.)
 * 6)  The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.
 * 7)  The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.
 * 8)  The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting  and polishing gems.
 * 9)  The piling of bricks for drying.

Derived terms

 * hacking coat, hacking jacket, hacking-seat
 * hacking run

Verb
hacking



Anagrams

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