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

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

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

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..

Shook :: Shook () imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.

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

Spillet Fishing :: Spiller (n.) A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

Crochet :: Crochet (v. t. & i.) To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl..

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..

Cat''s-paw :: Cat's-paw (n.) A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked..

Porthook :: Porthook (n.) One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached.

Hitch :: Hitch (n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement..

Shook :: Shook (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook..

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..

Squier :: Squid (n.) A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid..

Hamular :: Hamular (a.) Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone..

Arm :: Arm (v. t.) To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling..

Span :: Span (v. t.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used..

Hagbut :: Hagbut (n.) A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim..

Hinge :: Hinge (n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on..

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