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Chatelaine :: Chatelaine (n.) An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain..

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..

Scimitar :: Scimitar (n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.

Crochet :: Crochet (v. t. & i.) To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl..

Billhook :: Billhook (n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter..

Falciform :: Falciform (a.) Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver..

Hook :: Hook (n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.

Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

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..

Uncous :: Uncous (a.) Hooklike; hooked.

Trawl :: Trawl (n.) 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..

Hamous :: Hamous () Having the end hooked or curved.

Fishhook :: Fishhook (n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked..

Hound''s-tongue :: Hound's-tongue (n.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue..

Claw :: Claw (n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird..

Hookedness :: Hookedness (n.) The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

Howker :: Howker (n.) Same as Hooker.

Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus..

Hamulus :: Hamulus (n.) A hook, or hooklike process..

Hitch :: Hitch (n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement..

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