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Crapnel :: Crapnel (n.) A hook or drag; a grapnel.

Hook :: Hook (n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.

Jig :: "Jig (n.) A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached..

Hooke''s Gearing :: Hooke's gearing () Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle..

Poy :: Poy (n.) A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream.

Averruncator :: Averruncator (n.) An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod..

Hooklet :: Hooklet (n.) A little hook.

Angle :: Angle (v. i.) To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line..

Pack :: Pack (n.) A shook of cask staves.

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..

Prolonge :: Prolonge (n.) A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes..

Skid :: Skid (n.) A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose..

Subadvocate :: Subaduncate (a.) Somewhat hooked or curved.

Toothbill :: Toothbill (n.) A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. Its color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea..

Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants..

Eyehole :: Eyehole (n.) A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet..

Hooke''s Joint :: Hooke's joint () A universal joint. See under Universal.

Gab :: Gab (n.) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.

Aduncity :: Aduncity (n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness.

Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

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