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Barb :: Barb (v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc..

Hamite :: Hamite (n.) A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form..

Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..

Hamated :: Hamated (a.) Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate..

Cottrel :: Cottrel (n.) A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire..

Aduncity :: Aduncity (n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness.

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light..

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

Router :: Router (n.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity..

Ravehook :: Ravehook (n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum..

Grubber :: Grubber (n.) One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc..

Bearing Rein :: Bearing rein () A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

Sniggle :: Sniggle (v. i.) To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.

Adunque :: Adunque (a.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill..

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

Snell :: Snell (n.) A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line..

Toothbill :: Toothbill (n.) A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. Its color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea..

Spillikin :: Spilliard fishing () A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing..

Crampoons :: Crampoons (n.) A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc..

Sniggle :: Sniggle (v. t.) To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare..

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