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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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Bill :: Bill (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff..

Shook :: Shook () of Shak.

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

Uncus :: Uncus (n.) A hook or claw.

Crampoons :: Crampoons (n.) A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, 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..

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..

Leaper :: Leaper (n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.

Shook :: Shook () imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.

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

Hook :: Hook (n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns..

Anchor :: Anchor (n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station..

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

Draught :: Draught (a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks..

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