Hell.
"The old barn had no back door, so I couldn't open it without prying up the wooden heck."
The bolt or latch of a door.
In plain English: A heck is the part you use to keep a door closed and locked.
"She fumbled with the heck to get inside quickly."
Hell.
"The driver yelled at the other car, cursing like heck after a minor fender bender."
A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.
"The travelers stopped at a local pub in Heck to rest during their walk through the Selby district."
A surname, possibly from German.
A civil parish of Selby district, North Yorkshire, England, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
The word heck originated as a Northern English dialect term in the late 1800s when speakers altered "hell" to create a milder exclamation. It traveled into general usage by softening its original meaning while retaining the function of an interjection for surprise or emphasis.