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Sockdolager :: Sockdolager (n.) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites..

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..

Bearing Rein :: Bearing rein () A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

Accroach :: Accroach (v. t.) To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook..

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

Shook :: Shook (n.) The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together..

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

Bricole :: Bricole (n.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used..

Accipitres :: Accipitres (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls..

Hooky :: Hooky (a.) Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

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

Uncinus :: Uncinus (n.) One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.

Tug :: Tug (n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed..

Grunter :: Grunter (n.) A hook used in lifting a crucible.

Hookedness :: Hookedness (n.) The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

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

Snood :: Snood (n.) A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.

Rhipidoglossa :: Rhipidoglossa (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix..

Cutgrass :: Cutgrass () A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia..

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

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