fack

The English word “fack” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.
A long-handed spade, especially used for turf.

Etymology

From Middle English *fak, fec, fæc (“space, compartment”), from Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; period of five years, lustrum”), from Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-, *paǵ- (“to fasten, fix”). Cognate with West Frisian fek, Dutch vak (“section, compartment”), German Fach…

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