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Heck.

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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name/hɛk/
  1. 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.

name/hɛk/
  1. A surname, possibly from German.

Where this word comes from

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

name/hɛk/
  1. 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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