1625, Gervase Markham, “Of the Ordering, Tilling, and Dressing of All Sorts of Plaine Barren Clayes, whether They be Simple or Compounded”, inMarkhams Farwell to Husbandry or, The Inriching of All Sorts of Barren and Sterile Grounds in Our Kingdome,[…], revised edition, London:[…] M[iles] F[lesher] for Roger Iackson,[…],→OCLC,page 5:
[O]ne goodhacker, being a luſty labourer, vvill at good eaſe hacke or cut more then halfe an Acre of ground in a day;[…]
1895 January 18,Chicago Record, quotee, “Making turpentine: An extensive industry in certain southern states”, in Edward D. Baldwin, editor,The Newton Graphic, volume XXIII, number14, Newton, Mass.: Edward D. Baldwin,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 5, column 4:
In January or February the "hacker," with his keen-bladed ax, begins the round which ends the season.[…] His task is to cut the "boxes" in which the thick gum of the wounded tree will collect. A box is a wide incision about six inches deep, a wedge shaped cut in the tree,[…] About a quart of sap is taken from each box by means of the trowel-shaped scoop used by the dipper, and then thehacker comes along and starts the flow afresh by wounding the tree again.
And then Billy was a middle-aged optometrist again, playinghacker’s golf this time—on a blazing summer Sunday morning.
1979 July 2, “Reflection on the Seedings Fills Pause at Wimbledon”, inThe New York Times[1]:
Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekendhackers on grass.
1986 April, Curtis Slepian, “The April Papers”, in R. Wayne Schmittberger, editor,Games, volume10, number 4 (number 74 overall), New York, N.Y.:Playboy Enterprises,→ISSN,→OCLC,page15:
I'm a computer crook, theWillie Sutton ofhackers. I break into computer systems for fun—and profit. To me, the Apple is the forbidden fruit.
2007, “Category 5—Illustrative Crosscutting Problem-focused Research Areas”, in Seymour E. Goodman, Herbert S. Lin, editors,Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace, Washington, D.C.: Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States,National Research Council,→ISBN, part II (An Illustrative Research Agenda),page205:
Typically, onehacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender.
2021 June 27, Wasif Ahmed, “Tencent Banned over 3.8 Million Hackers in PUBG Mobile Last Week”, inDot Esports[2], archived fromthe original on2022-06-03:
PUBG Mobile has seen more than its fair share ofhackers, with Tencent banning millions of players every week for cheating.
2022 January 11, Samed Kadirogullari, “Fortnite’s Flying Hackers Leave Ninja & CouRage Speechless”, inScreen Rant[3], archived fromthe original on2022-01-11:
Cheaters continue to plagueFortnite, asTyler 'Ninja' Blevins andJack 'CouRage' Dunlop have run into ahacker using fly-mode and aimbot, completely destroying and leaving both popular streamers speechless.
2022 March 9, Edward Hays, “10 best Minecraft servers to play in 2022”, inSportskeeda[4], archived fromthe original on2022-12-05:
The server is certainly not for everyone. Gamers need to be prepared to deal with manyhackers, trolls, and griefers. However, those looking for a unique Minecraft experience might just find it on 2b2t.
2023 January 30, Alex Garton, “Apex Legends Dev Confirms Even More Anti-cheat Improvements Coming in Season 16”, inDexerto[5], archived fromthe original on2023-01-30:
While a patch was rolled out that's given Diamond, Master, and Predator competitors protection against DDoSing, players still want Respawn to do more about the abundance ofhackers.
The Electrical Engineering Department, J. McKenzie in particular, for allowing me to use the PDP-1 computer to do the extensive computations, draw graphs, and even type this thesis. In this connection Charles Landau did some of the programming, Luella Thompson did most of the typing, and W. B. Ackermann helped when the machine would not cooperate. Many other computerhackers also willingly offered advice.
Ahacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled. Three "diskzines" – magazines on floppy disks – started cheaply by entrepreneurs who placed ads in obscure computer journals[…]
1995 May 22, Joe Chidley, “Cracking the Net”, inMaclean’s, volume108, Toronto, Ont.: Maclean-Hunter Publishing,→ISSN,→OCLC, pages54–56; quoted in “Bibliography”, in Suzanne Elizabeth Kender, editor,Crime in America (The Reference Shelf; volume 68, number 5), New York, N.Y.:H[alsey] W[illiam] Wilson Company,1996,→ISBN,page197:
While mosthackers are people who simply love playing with computers and who break security measures in a network only for fun or to point out flaws, there is a malicious subset ofhackers known as "crackers," who intrude on computer networks to cause damage, commit fraud, or steal data.
1825, Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin, “Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder”, inThe Newgate Calendar;[…], volume III, London: J. Robins and Co.,[…],→OCLC,page231, column 1:
Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall, and kicked her in the belly: that afterwards she picked her up, and beat her with thehacker on the side of the head; wiped the blood off with a dish-clout, and took her up to bed after she was dead.
1846 July, John Macleod, “The Tar and Turpentine Business of North Carolina”, in John S. Skinner, editor,The Monthly Journal of Agriculture,[…], volume II, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Greeley & McElrath,[…], published1847,→OCLC,page15:
When the dipping is thus over, the next work is to "chip" or scarify the tree immediately over the box,[…] This is done by an instrument usually called a "hacker," sometimes "shave." Its form is somewhat like a "round shave," narrowing at the cutting place to the diameter of an inch, with a shank, to be fixed securely into a strong, heavy handle of about two feet in length, while the faces of the trees are low, but the handle is made longer as years advance the faces higher.
George C. Howard, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. /grindstonehacker. /Report.—Commended for the contrivance of an instrument, called a "hacker," that is used in trimming grindstones. Thishacker turns with the stone, and is drawn across in a slide rest, and fulfills its important function satisfactorily.
The upper half of each swede-turnip had been eaten off by the live-stock, and it was the business of the two women to grab up the lower or earthy half of the root with a hooked fork called ahacker, that it might be eaten also.
1893, George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard, “Hack”, inA Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire, London:[…][F]or theEnglish Dialect Society by Henry Frowde,[…],→OCLC,page72:
Hack.[…] To loosen the earth round potatoes, preparatory to earthing them up. This is done with a ‘tater-hacker,’ an old three-grained garden-fork, which by bending down the tines or ‘grains’ at right angles to the handle has been converted into something resembling a rake, but used as a hoe.
Some computer enthusiasts object to the use of the wordhacker for a person who breaks into computer systems(sense 1.3), preferringcracker for this sense.
Start runnin' for a streetcar and they open up with machine guns and bump two pedestrians, ahacker asleep in his cab, and an old scrubwoman on the second floor workin' a mop. And they miss the guy they're after.
1965 January 24, “Bird costs cabbie $10”, inThe Hartford Courant, daily edition, number CXXVIII, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Courant Company,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 4A, columns4–5:
WashingtonHacker Charles A. Culp and his pet macaw parrot, Capt. Bligh, ran afoul of the law when a policeman charged Culp with failure to give full time and attention to driving, because he was tickling Capt. Bligh who has a perch in the cab.
"That's Brooklyn," thehacker said, his tone accusing. "I don't go to Brooklyn, mister. Anyways, I'm due at the garage." Nathan Shapiro is usually gentle with cab drivers. He was not, this hot afternoon of a fruitless day—and a day which was supposed to have been an off-duty day—Shapiro felt no gentleness.
1642, Lewes Hughes, “The Errors and Ungodliness of the Service Displaid and Laid Open, by Way of a Dialogue between a Countrey Gentleman, and a Minister of Gods Word”, inCertain Grievances, or The Popish Errors and Ungodlinesse of the Service-book;[…], 5th edition, London:[…] T. P.,→OCLC,page13:
The interrupting of the Miniſter by the Clark, and the vvhole congregation, vvhen he readeth the Pſalms, by taking every other verſe out of his mouth, vvith anhackering confuſed noiſe, eſpecially in countrey Churches, vvhere the people cannot read vvell.
Stammering,hackering—and so forth; it's shameful to relate! A soldier should be sound, brave, firm, decisive, true, honourable!
1814 June 18 (date written),Mary Russell Mitford, “To Mrs. Mitford, Bertram House”, in A. G. K. L’Estrange, editor,The Life of Mary Russell Mitford,[…] Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends.[…], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers,[…], published1870,→OCLC,page214:
[M]y noble patron has my habit ofhackering so completely that he scarcely speaks three words without two stops; but when we get at his meaning it is better than any one's.
Since the new marriage act, we, who belong to country magistrates, have gained a priority over the rest of the parish in matrimonial news.[…] Many a blushing awkward pair hath our litle lame clerk (a sorryCupid!) ushered in between dark and light to stammer andhacker, to bow and curtsy, to sign or make a mark, as it pleases Heaven.
1825 March 9,William Cobbett, “To the Electors of Westminster. On the Speech of SirFrancis Burdett, of the 1st March 1825, when He Presented the Petition of the Catholics of Ireland.”, in William Cobbett, editor,Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume53, number11, London:[…] C[harles Robert] Clement,[…], published12 March 1825,→OCLC,column643:
[P]oor Adams becameflustered, andhackered and stammered, as if in the way of imitating theWestminster Ciceros.
Certainly, some folks said that he was a born fool, and that he said so few words because hehackered and stammered so awfully. But that, belike, was only jealousy.
1892, M[armaduke] C[harles] F[rederick] Morris, “Specimens of the Folk-talk”, inYorkshire Folk-talk with Characteristics of Those who Speak It in the North and East Ridings, London: Henry Frowde,[…]; York, Yorkshire: John Sampson,→OCLC,page122:
Hehackered an' stammered leyke an au'd ganthert chooakin wi bran.
"Ha," they hollowlyhackered, / "You come, forsooth, / "By stealth to obliterate / Our graven worth, our chronicle, our date, / That our descendant may not gild the record / Of our past state,[…]"
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