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Play :: Play (v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it..

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

Angulous :: Angulous (a.) Angular; having corners; hooked.

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

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..

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

Ravehook :: Ravehook (n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum..

Fishhook :: Fishhook (n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked..

Hamulus :: Hamulus (n.) A hooked barbicel of a feather.

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

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..

Subadvocate :: Subaduncate (a.) Somewhat hooked or curved.

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..

Falcated :: Falcated (a.) Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed..

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..

Whirl :: Whirl (v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached..

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

Uncous :: Uncous (a.) Hooklike; hooked.

Toothbill :: Toothbill (n.) A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. Its color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea..

Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.

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