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On them were hung iron hooks or chains with hooks of various lengths called pothooks, trammels, hakes, pot-hangers, pot-claws, pot-clips, pot-brakes, pot-crooks.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse

Good gracious; it hakes my mart—I mean it makes my heart stand still to think of it!”

From Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best by Standish, Burt L.