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• Hook Norton Brewery — is a regional brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England, founded in 1849. The brewing plant is a traditional Victorian tower brewery in which all the stages of the brewing process flow logically from floor to floor; mashing at the top, boiling …   Wikipedia

• hook|worm — «HUK WURM», noun. 1. any one of several roundworms which have strong cutting plates or teeth. Hookworms enter the body through the skin and suck blood from the intestinal walls of people and animals, causing hookworm disease. 2. = hookworm… …   Useful english dictionary

• hook — Synonyms and related words: L, Long Melford, abstract, acquitted, all the way, allure, anchor, anchorage, and, and sinker, angle, angle off, annex, apex, appropriate, arc, arch, argue into, articulate, backhand, backhander, backstroke, bag, bait …   Moby Thesaurus

• Hook —    1) Heb. hah, a ring inserted in the nostrils of animals to which a cord was fastened for the purpose of restraining them (2 Kings 19:28; Isa. 37:28, 29; Ezek. 29:4; 38:4). The Orientals make use of this contrivance for curbing their work… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Horse teeth — Horses teeth are often used to estimate the animal s age, hence the sayings long in the tooth and Don t look a gift horse in the mouth . Types of teeth At five years of age a horse has between 36 and 44 teeth. All horses have* Twelve premolars… …   Wikipedia

• Cant Hook — A cant hook is a traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook at one end, used for handling and moving logs. While similar to a peavey, the cant hook has a blunt tip, often with teeth. A logging tool… …   Wikipedia

• To set one's teeth — Set Set (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Set}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Setting}.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian, OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel. setja, Sw. s[ a]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative from the root… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• To set the teeth on edge — Set Set (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Set}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Setting}.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian, OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel. setja, Sw. s[ a]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative from the root… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• palu hook — a wooden hook used in the south central Pacific Ocean to capture oilfish, Ruvettus pretiosus. Protective sticks (usually 6 8) are lashed to the line near the hook to prevent the sharp teeth of the fish from severing the line …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Whipsaw — Whip saw , n. 1. A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw. [1913 Webster] 2. A kind of narrow ripsaw, tapering from butt to point, with hook teeth and averaging from 5 to 71/2 feet… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• keg- — Hook, tooth. 1. a. hake, from Old English haca, hook, akin to Old Norse haki, hook; b. harquebus, from Middle Dutch hake, hook. Both a and b from Germanic *hakan . 2. a …   Universalium