Definition of hook

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Hook (n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook..

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Hook :: Hook (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, 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..
Top-block :: Top-block (n.) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast..
Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.
Aduncous :: Aduncous (a.) Curved inwards; hooked.
Goracco :: Goracco (n.) A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India..
Billhook :: Billhook (n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter..
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..
Hamulose :: Hamulose (a.) Bearing a small hook at the end.
Adhamant :: Adhamant (a.) Clinging, as by hooks..
Shook :: Shook () imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.
Seta :: Seta (n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form..
Snell :: Snell (n.) A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line..
Hook-billed :: Hook-billed (a.) Having a strongly curved bill.
Hair :: Hair (n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar)..
Cottrel :: Cottrel (n.) A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire..
Aquiline :: Aquiline (a.) Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose.
Eye :: Eye (n.) A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.
Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..
Fishhook :: Fishhook (n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked..
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