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Tenaculum :: Tenaculum (n.) An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like..

Span :: Span (v. t.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used..

Hooked :: Hooked (a.) Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird..

Top-block :: Top-block (n.) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast..

Shook :: Shook (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook..

Agraffe :: Agraffe (n.) A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration..

Burton :: Burton (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part..

Shook :: Shook (n.) A set of boards for a sugar box.

Needle :: Needle (n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting..

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

Hooker :: Hooker (n.) A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland..

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

Mousing :: Mousing (n.) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out..

Angle :: Angle (v. i.) To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line..

Uncinate :: Uncinate (a.) Hooked; bent at the tip in the form of a hook; as, an uncinate process..

Hook :: Hook (v. i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.

Poy :: Poy (n.) A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream.

Clasp :: Clasp (n.) An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc..

Lanyard :: Lanyard (n.) A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube..

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.

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