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

Teasel :: Teasel (n.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth..

Hitch :: Hitch (v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter..

Fishhook :: Fishhook (n.) A hook for catching fish.

Linguatulina :: Linguatulina (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida..

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

Aquiline :: Aquiline (a.) Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose.

Crook :: Crook (n.) A pothook.

Cast :: Cast (v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish..

Uncus :: Uncus (n.) A hook or claw.

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

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..

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..

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..

Hooker :: Hooker (n.) A Dutch vessel with two masts.

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

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

Hamite :: Hamite (n.) A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form..

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

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