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Crochet :: Crochet (n.) A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively..

Sickle :: Sickle (n.) A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap..

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.

Foothook :: Foothook (n.) See Futtock.

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..

Myzostomata :: Myzostomata (n. pl.) An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side..

Hamiform :: Hamiform (n.) Hook-shaped.

Hitch :: Hitch (v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles..

Hookey :: Hookey (n.) See Hockey.

Loop :: Loop (n.) A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight..

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

Staple :: Staple (n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like..

Hooked :: Hooked (imp. & p. p.) of Hoo.

Pennant :: Pennant (n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.

Swivel :: Swivel (a.) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis..

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..

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

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

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

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