Definition of hook

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Hook (v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore..

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Barbicel :: Barbicel (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.
Hockey :: Hockey (n.) A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals..
Hooked :: Hooked (imp. & p. p.) of Hoo.
Fishhook :: Fishhook (n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked..
Bait :: Bait (v. i.) Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net..
Hamulus :: Hamulus (n.) A hook, or hooklike process..
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook..
Hooker :: Hooker (n.) One who, or that which, hooks..
Agrappes :: Agrappes (n. pl.) Hooks and eyes for armor, etc..
Hook :: Hook (n.) A field sown two years in succession.
Seta :: Seta (n.) 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..
Breasthook :: Breasthook (n.) A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side..
Hookey :: Hookey (n.) See Hockey.
Fishhook :: Fishhook (n.) A hook for catching fish.
Dibranchiata :: Dibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda..
Uncinate :: Uncinate (a.) Hooked; bent at the tip in the form of a hook; as, an uncinate process..
Hinge :: Hinge (n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on..
Aduncous :: Aduncous (a.) Curved inwards; hooked.
Hagbut :: Hagbut (n.) A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim..
Griff :: Griff (n.) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.
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