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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..

Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.

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

Sheephook :: Sheephook (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook..

Hasp :: Hasp (n.) A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door..

Clasp :: Clasp (n.) An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc..

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

Hooke''s Gearing :: Hooke's gearing () Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle..

Unciform :: Unciform (a.) Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike.

Myzostomata :: Myzostomata (n. pl.) An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side..

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

Falcon :: Falcon (n.) One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight..

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

Unguis :: Unguis (n.) One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.

Aduncity :: Aduncity (n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness.

Boss :: Boss (n.) A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder..

Hamous :: Hamous () Having the end hooked or curved.

Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore..

Hook :: Hook (v. i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.

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

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