1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hackney-writer, one who writes for attornies or booksellers. 1803. Gradus ad Cantabrigiam. Hacks. Hack Preachers; the common exhibitioners at St. Mary’s, employed in the service of defaulters, and absentees. 1819. Moore, Tom Crib. I first was hired to peg a hack. 1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, i., 7. A rattler is a rumbler, otherwise a Jarvy! Better known, perhaps, by the name of a hack. 1841. Leman Rede, Sixteen String Jack, ii., 3. I’ll get a hack, be off in a crack. Verb (colloquial, football).—To kick shins. Hacking = the practice of kicking shins at football. 1857. G. A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone, ch. i. I saw, too, more than one player limp out of his path disconsolately, trying vainly to dissemble the pain of a vicious hack. 1869. Spencer, Study of Sociology, ch. viii. p. 186 (9th ed.). And thus, perhaps, the ‘education of a gentleman’ may rightly include giving and receiving hacking of the shins at foot-ball. 1872. The Echo, 3 Nov. Some of the modern foot ball players have the tips of their shoes tipped with iron, and others wear a kind of armour or iron plate under their knicker-bockers to avoid ... what is called hacking. Hackle, subs. (common).—Pluck; spirit; bottom (q.v.). To show hackle = to show fight. [Hackle = a long shining feather on a cock’s neck.] Fr., avoir du foie; n’avoir pas le flubart, or avoir du poil au ciel. Hackslaver, verb. (old).—To stammer; to splutter; to hesitate in speech. Hackum (or Captain Hackum, or Hackster), subs. (old).—A bully; a bravo. For synonyms, see Furioso. 1657. Lady Alimony, 1, 3 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., p. 282). Vowing, like a desperate haxter that he has express command to seize upon all our properties. 1690. B. E., Cant. Crew, s.v. Hackam, Fighting Fellow. 1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hackum, Captain Hackum, a bravo, a slasher. 1859. Matsell, Vocabulum. Hackum, a bravado, a slasher, ‘Capt. Hackum,’ a fellow who slashes with a bowie-knife. Had.—See Have. Haddock, subs. (common).—1. A purse. Haddock of Beans = a purse of money. [Haddock = cod: O. Sw., Rudde; Ic., Koddi = a small bag. Cf., Codpiece.] For synonyms, see Poge. 1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes. Melrusio, the fish we call a hadock, or a cod. Ibid. Metter la faua nel bacello, to put the beane into the cod. 1834. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, bk. III., ch. xiii. ‘What’s here?’ cried he, searching the attorney’s pockets ... ‘a haddock, stuffed with nothing, I’m thinking.’ 2. in. pl. (Stock Exchange).—North of Scotland Ordinary Stock. Haddums (or Had ’em).—See quots. 1690. B. E., Cant. Crew. The Spark has been at Haddums. He is Clapt, or Poxt. 1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.