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In west Cornwall, 19ᵗʰ century, a unit of count for hake (a species of fish) = 21 hake.

M. A. Courtney.
West Cornwall.
in Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall.
Published for the English Dialect Society.
London: Trübner and Company, 1880.

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