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Bait :: Bait (v. i.) Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net..

Hatstand :: Hatstand (n.) A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc..

Spillikin :: Spilliard fishing () A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing..

Sniggle :: Sniggle (v. i.) To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.

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..

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..

Accipitres :: Accipitres (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls..

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

Hook :: Hook (n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

Hamated :: Hamated (a.) Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate..

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

Staple :: Staple (n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like..

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

Bait :: Bait (v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook..

Unhook :: Unhook (v. t.) To loose from a hook; to undo or open by loosening or unfastening the hooks of; as, to unhook a fish; to unhook a dress..

Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..

Boulter :: Boulter (n.) A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached..

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

Sockdolager :: Sockdolager (n.) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites..

Tapeworm :: Tapeworm (n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adh

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