Definition of hook

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

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Hamiform :: Hamiform (n.) Hook-shaped.
Hookah :: Hookah (n.) A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water..
Forehook :: Forehook (n.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook..
Leaper :: Leaper (n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To steal.
Nuthook :: Nuthook (n.) A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors..
Hooked :: Hooked (imp. & p. p.) of Hoo.
Shook :: Shook (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook..
Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants..
Hooker :: Hooker (n.) A Dutch vessel with two masts.
Accroach :: Accroach (v. t.) To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook..
Play :: Play (v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it..
Shook :: Shook (imp.) of Shak.
Hamulose :: Hamulose (a.) Bearing a small hook at the end.
Down :: Down (n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets..
Bricole :: Bricole (n.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used..
Hook :: Hook (n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns..
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..
Ganch :: Ganch (n.) To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment..
Crapnel :: Crapnel (n.) A hook or drag; a grapnel.
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