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definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post. My sword hacked like a handsaw. Shak.

A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal. [Western U.S.]

A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States. Gray.

The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

Same as Hagbut.

The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel. [U.S.]

One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.

A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks. [Bengal] Malcom.

e, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.

Rough or broken, as if hacked.

The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.

The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.

A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.

A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.

A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin. [Obs.] Milton.

One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes. [U.S.] They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. W. Irving.

The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers. [U.S.]

To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.

A very astringent shrub (Spiræa tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.

nted; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray.