2. Noun. (context: computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system. ¹
3. Noun. (context: computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker. ¹
4. Noun. (pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs. ¹
5. Noun. (sports chiefly American football soccer rugby) A kick in the shins. ¹
6. Noun. (context: massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand. ¹
7. Noun. (UK countable) A riding or journey on horseback. (Plural hackings.) ¹
8. Noun. (obsolete) The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer. ¹
9. Noun. (obsolete masonry) The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course. ¹
10. Noun. (obsolete gem-cutting) 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. ¹
11. Noun. (obsolete brick-making) The piling of bricks for drying. ¹
12. Verb. (present participle of hack) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hacking
1. hack [v] - See also: hack
Medical Definition of Hacking
1. A chopping stroke made with the edge of the hand in massage. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hacking
Literary usage of Hacking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Medical and Orthopedic Gymnastics by Anders Gustaf Wide (1902)
"hacking given in this man? ner is called Length back-hacking hacking can also be
given so that it goes from the middle of the back downwards and out to the ..."
2. The Ontario Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Queen's by Ontario High Court of Justice, Ontario, High Court of Justice (1896)
"hacking. Husband and Wife—Contract—Separate Estate—Personal Articles. ...
This action was against the defendant Annie hacking, -a married woman, ..."
3. Australia Pilot by United States Hydrographic Office (1920)
"Port hacking is a small anchorage, suitable for coasters, within hacking Point.
The entrance, which lies between hacking Point and Glaisher Point, ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"1673 Hales had been admitted to the rank of colonel of a foot regiment at hacking!
on. Kent, but, contrary to the statute 25 Charles U, he had not received ..."
5. Therapeutics of the Respiratory System, Cough and Coryza, Acute and Chronic by Marvin W. Van Denburg (1915)
"hacking dry cough; followed by copious green sputum, or whitish and greenish;
... hacking Cough: Burning, Rawness: Tickling and burning in larynx causes ..."
6. O. Henry Biography by Charles Alphonso Smith (1916)
"O. Henry at this time had a hacking cough and Doctor Hall used to wince as if
struck whenever he heard it. "Will," he said, a few days before starting on ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Short and interrupted: as, a hacking cough. Also hacky. .... hacky (hak'i), a.
[< /mcA-i, 5, + -yi.] Same as hacking!. [Colloq.] hack-watch (hak'woch), ». ..."
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