- (used as a mild expression of annoyance, rejection, disgust, etc.): What the heck do you care?
- something remarkable of its kind (usually used in the phrase heck of a): That was a heck of an impressive speech. Have one heck of a good time.
- (used as a mild intensifier): I say he's guilty as heck.
- a comblike attachment on a loom, for guiding the warp threads as they are dressed for the warp beam.
- a device that guides yarn onto the bobbin of a spinning wheel.
- a gridlike arrangement of glass or metal rods below the hooks on a Jacquard loom, used for lifting all harness eyes equally or evenly.
- a mild exclamation of surprise, irritation, etc
- a frame for obstructing the passage of fish in a river
