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

Hook :: Hook (n.) A field sown two years in succession.

Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore..

Kranging Hook :: Kranging hook () A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away.

Barbicel :: Barbicel (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

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..

Scimitar :: Scimitar (n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.

Eye :: Eye (n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope..

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station..

Can Hook :: Can hook () A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves..

Hooker :: Hooker (n.) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.

Burton :: Burton (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part..

Crochet :: Crochet (n.) A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively..

Tenaculum :: Tenaculum (n.) An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like..

Handbill :: Handbill (n.) A pruning hook.

V Hook :: V hook () A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V..

Ancistroid :: Ancistroid (a.) Hook-shaped.

Shook :: Shook (n.) A set of boards for a sugar box.

Hatstand :: Hatstand (n.) A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc..

Cant Hook :: Cant hook () A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc..

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