Definition of hook

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

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Unhooked :: Unhooked (a.) Without nooks and corners; guileless.
Ancistroid :: Ancistroid (a.) Hook-shaped.
Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.
Unfalcated :: Unfalcated (a.) Not falcated, or hooked..
Fancywork :: Fancywork (n.) Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc..
Hooker :: Hooker (n.) One who, or that which, hooks..
Accipitres :: Accipitres (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls..
Aduncity :: Aduncity (n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness.
Hook :: Hook (n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
Porthook :: Porthook (n.) One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached.
Sockdolager :: Sockdolager (n.) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites..
Hamated :: Hamated (a.) Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate..
Router :: Router (n.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity..
Sickle :: Sickle (n.) A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap..
Tapeworm :: Tapeworm (n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adh
Hamulus :: Hamulus (n.) A hooked barbicel of a feather.
Hamous :: Hamous () Having the end hooked or curved.
Cottrel :: Cottrel (n.) A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire..
Play :: Play (v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it..
Cant Hook :: Cant hook () A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc..
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