'Heck frame' definitions:
Definition of 'Heck frame'
From: GCIDE
- Heck \Heck\, n. [See Hatch a half door.] [Written also hack.]
- 1. The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A bend or winding of a stream. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- Half heck, the lower half of a door.
- Heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart.
- Heck box or Heck frame, that which carries the heck in warping. [1913 Webster]