Heck

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//hɛk//

A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.

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A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.

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A surname, possibly from German.

Etymology

English, Dutch and south German surname, all from words meaning "hedge," "enclosure," "fence," from *haggju. Compare Van Heck, Hatch.

proper noun

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A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
2
A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).

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