Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In heraldry, indented with the indents embowed: said of the edge of any bearing.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hack.

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Examples

  • I thought of what Amy had told me of the Fellowship, its hatred for what it perceived as human weakness and fallibility; of Faulkner's ornate Apocalypses, visions of the final judgment; and of the word hacked beneath James Jessop's name on a length of dirt-encrusted wood.

    The Killing Kind John Connolly 2002

  • News Corp. shares have fallen 13 percent since July 4, when allegations spread that employees at the News of the Word hacked into the phones of murder and terrorism victims and paid the police to get stories.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Saying that MOST copies of Windows on custom PCs are hacked is not that large of a stretch.

    Windows 7′s Price May Be A Barrier For Adoption | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Bill whittled a hand-drill and baseboard out of wood hacked from a fallen palm tree.

    DESERT ISLAND SOLITAIRE, OR, A GOOD CIGAR IS A SMOKE • by Nick Logan 2008

  • Washington stakes an extra half billion this year, hacked from the Irish illegal immigrant levy.

    The Great California Game Gash, Jonathan 1991

  • A proportional version of Ajaxterm hacked to be a terminal using Web-optimized proportional fonts.

    freshmeat.net Releases 2009

  • We just got an anonymous tip that Google's been 'hacked' - sure enough, visitors of the company's Bangladesh search site

    TechCrunch Robin Wauters 2011

  • We just got an anonymous tip that Google's been 'hacked' - sure enough, visitors of the company's Bangladesh search site

    TechCrunch Robin Wauters 2011

  • Telegraph Chinese Yahoo! accounts 'hacked' - 7 hrs ago

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • Fact: The extremely weak security and bad design in Internet Explorer were reasons that Google, Adobe and approximately 30 entities in several countries were "hacked" - causing billions of dollars in damages to repair.

    Blogpulse Top Links 2010

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