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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Heck n.  [Written also hack.]
 1. The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
 2. A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.]
 3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door. [Prov. Eng.]
 4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
 5. Weaving An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
 6. A bend or winding of a stream. [Prov. Eng.]
 Half heck, the lower half of a door.
 Heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart.
 Heck box or Heck frame, that which carries the heck in warping.