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Definition of hook

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Hook (v. t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout..

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

Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..

Hooky :: Hooky (a.) Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

Barb :: Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

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..

Agraffe :: Agraffe (n.) A hook or clasp.

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing..

Pothook :: Pothook (n.) An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.

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

Hink :: Hink (n.) A reaping hook.

Barbicel :: Barbicel (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

Spillet Fishing :: Spiller (n.) A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

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

Nereis :: Nereis (n.) A genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws..

Hook :: Hook (n.) A snare; a trap.

Hamulose :: Hamulose (a.) Bearing a small hook at the end.

Trawl :: Trawl (n.) A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter..

Angle :: Angle (v. i.) To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line..

Skid :: Skid (n.) A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose..

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..