Definition of hook

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Hook (n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns..

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Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To steal.
Hooker :: Hooker (n.) One who, or that which, hooks..
Cat''s-paw :: Cat's-paw (n.) A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked..
Gab :: Gab (n.) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.
Prolonge :: Prolonge (n.) A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes..
Fishhook :: Fishhook (n.) A hook for catching fish.
Unguis :: Unguis (n.) One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..
Hook :: Hook (n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns..
Shook :: Shook (imp.) of Shak.
Sockdolager :: Sockdolager (n.) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites..
Hooker :: Hooker (n.) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
Crochet :: Crochet (n.) A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively..
Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..
Leader :: Leader (n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached..
Fishhook :: Fishhook (n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked..
Shook :: Shook () of Shak.
Accroach :: Accroach (v. t.) To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook..
Torus :: Torus (n.) 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.
Hooked :: Hooked (a.) Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird..
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