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A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.
A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away.
A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.
A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V.
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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.
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.
a.
Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.
imp. & p. p.
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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.
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n.
One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
n.
The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
n.
One who, or that which, hooks.
a.
Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
v. i.
To bend; to curve as a hook.
n.
A little hook.
a.
Provided with a hook or hooks.
a.
Having a hooked or aquiline nose.
n.
The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
n.
See Eccentric, and V-hook.
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