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Off the hooks was old slang for ill−tempered.Off the hooks was th century slang for at once, immediately.Off the hooks was th century slang for dead.Off the hooks was th century slang for crazy, eccentric.Off the hooks was th century slang for to be unrestrained, to behave to excess.
The likely side-effect of contracting venereal disease.
Hooks is slang for hands.
Bread hooks is slang for the hands or fingers.
Spurs.
Dukes, paws, grabbers, meat hooks
hands
know that ties the depending hooks to the trawl line on the fishing ground
Your two hands
Spurs, also called gut lancers.
sky blue pink with yellow dots
Non-existent colour. Also add in the 'trick' words like sky hooks, striped paint, bucket of blue steam, black and white chequered paint for chessboards etc.
a fine line used with smaller fish hooks, for catching squid
A brothel.
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Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under Nail, n., 1.
n.
One who, or that which, hooks.
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 adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.
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One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form.
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A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
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One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.
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Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
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One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
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A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.
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A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.
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One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.
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A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
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A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.
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An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida.
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Provided with a hook or hooks.
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One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.
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.
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.
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A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors.
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