Definition of hook

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

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Meak :: Meak (n.) A hook with a long handle.
Goracco :: Goracco (n.) A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India..
Hagbut :: Hagbut (n.) A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim..
Uncus :: Uncus (n.) A hook or claw.
Holdfast :: Holdfast (n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support..
Arm :: Arm (v. t.) To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling..
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..
Hink :: Hink (n.) A reaping hook.
Hookah :: Hookah (n.) A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water..
Hook :: Hook (n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
Subadvocate :: Subaduncate (a.) Somewhat hooked or curved.
Nuthook :: Nuthook (n.) A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors..
Aquiline :: Aquiline (a.) Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose.
Howker :: Howker (n.) Same as Hooker.
Pullback :: Pullback (n.) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point..
Hookedness :: Hookedness (n.) The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
Bricole :: Bricole (n.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used..
Rhipidoglossa :: Rhipidoglossa (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix..
Eye :: Eye (n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope..
Angulous :: Angulous (a.) Angular; having corners; hooked.
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