hike

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like. [Dial. or Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2.To raise with a quick movement. [PJC]

3.To raise (a price) quickly or significantly in a single step. They hiked gasoline prices twenty cents in less than a week. [PJC]

4.(Football) To pass (the ball) from the center to the quarterback at the start of the play; to snap (the ball). [PJC]

1.To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously. [Dial. or Colloq.] "If you persist in heaving and hiking like this." --Kipling.

It's hike, hike, hike (march) till you stick in the mud, and then you hike back again a little slower than you went.— Scribner's Mag.[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2.to take a long walk, especially for pleasure or exercise. [PJC]

1.The act of hiking. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2.A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure or exercise; a tramp; a march. [WordNet sense 1] [PJC]

With every hike there's a few laid out with their hands crossed.— Scribner's Mag.[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3.an increase in cost, rate, etc.; as, there was a dramatic hike in gasoline prices; a hike in the interest rates. [WordNet sense 2]

Syn: rise, boost. [WordNet 1.5]

4.Hence: the amount a salary is increased; as, he got a wage hike. [WordNet sense 3]

Syn: raise, rise. [WordNet 1.5]