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• hook-shaped — adjective shaped in the form of a hook • Similar to: ↑formed …   Useful english dictionary

• hook — hook1 hookless, adj. hooklike, adj. /hook/, n. 1. a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something. 2. a fishhook. 3. anything that catches; snare; trap. 4. something that attracts …   Universalium

• hook — /hʊk / (say hook) noun 1. a curved or angular piece of metal or other firm substance catching, pulling, or sustaining something. 2. a fishhook. 3. that which catches; a snare; a trap. 4. something curved or bent like a hook, as a mark or symbol,… …  

• hook — [[t]hʊk[/t]] n. 1) a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something 2) a fishhook 3) anything that catches; snare; trap 4) cvb something that attracts attention or entices: a sales …   From formal English to slang

• hook — [OE] Hook and its Germanic relatives, German haken, Dutch haak, Swedish hake, and Danish hage, go back to a prehistoric *keg or *keng ‘bent object’, from which English also gets hank [14] (via Old Norse *hanku). Old Norse haki ‘hook’ was the… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• hook — I. n. 1. Catch, clasp, hasp, bent holder, curved catch. 2. Snare, trap. 3. Sickle, reaping hook, reaper, cutter, grasshook. II. v. a. 1. Catch or fasten with a hook, take with a hook. 2. Catch, snare, ensnare, entrap. 3 …   New dictionary of synonyms

• hook — [OE] Hook and its Germanic relatives, German haken, Dutch haak, Swedish hake, and Danish hage, go back to a prehistoric *keg or *keng ‘bent object’, from which English also gets hank [14] (via Old Norse *hanku). Old Norse haki ‘hook’ was the… …   Word origins

• hook silver — legal tender, hook shaped silver pieces used in Ceylon in the early nineteenth century …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• hook — [hook] n. [ME < OE hoc, akin to HAKE, MDu hoec, ON hakr < IE base * keg , peg for hanging] 1. a curved or bent piece of metal, wood, etc. used to catch, hold, or pull something; specif., a) a curved piece of wire or bone with a barbed end,… …   English World dictionary

• Hook horror — context Infobox D D creature name=Hook horror alignment=Neutral type=Aberration subtype= source=Monster Manual II (3rd edition) first=White Dwarf #12In the Dungeons Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, a hook horror is a bipedal, subterranean… …   Wikipedia

• hook — 1) a bent piece of wire with its tip sharpened and often a barb below the tip, used to catch fish. Available in many sizes and styles, variously numbered and named. May be single, double or treble but all these are counted as one hook in angling… …   Dictionary of ichthyology