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Pintle :: Pintle (n.) A hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns.

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

Hook-billed :: Hook-billed (a.) Having a strongly curved bill.

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

Hamulate :: Hamulate (a.) Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.

Mourne :: Mourne (n.) The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached..

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..

Adunque :: Adunque (a.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill..

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

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

Unfalcated :: Unfalcated (a.) Not falcated, or hooked..

Eye :: Eye (n.) A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.

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-nosed :: Hook-nosed (a.) Having a hooked or aquiline nose.

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

Howker :: Howker (n.) Same as Hooker.

Barb :: Barb (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else..

Hooked :: Hooked (imp. & p. p.) of Hoo.

Needle :: Needle (n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting..

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..

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