Hook , v. i. To move or go with a sudden
turn; hence [Slang or Prov. Eng.]
, to make off; to clear out;
-- often with it. "Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it." Kipling.
Hook , n. (Geog.)
A spit or
narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer
end; as, Sandy Hook.
Hook (?), v. i. To bend; to curve as a hook.
Hook , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooked (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Hooking.]
1.
To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook,
esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to
hook a dress; to hook a trout.
Hook him, my poor dear,
. . . at any sacrifice.
W.
Collins. 2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]
To hook on, to fasten or
attach by, or as by, hook.
Hook (?), n. [OE.
hok, AS. hōc; cf. D. haak, G. hake, haken, OHG. hāko, hāgo, hāggo, Icel.
haki, Sw. hake, Dan. hage. Cf. Arquebuse, Hagbut, Hake, Hatch a half door, Heckle.]
1. A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into
a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat
hook, etc.
2.
That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door
or gate hangs and turns.
3. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook.
Pope. 4. (Steam Engin.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
5. A snare; a trap. [R.] Shak.
6. A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.]
7. pl. The projecting
points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
By
hook or by crook, one way or other;
by any means, direct or indirect. Milton. "In hope her to attain by hook or crook." Spenser. -- Off the hooks, unhinged;
disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.] "In the evening, by water, to the
Duke of Albemarle, whom I found
mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone
out of the river." Pepys. -- On one's own hook, on one's own account or responsibility; by one's self.
[Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett. -- To go off the
hooks, to die.
[Colloq.] Thackeray. -- Bid hook, a small boat hook. -- Chain hook. See under Chain. --
Deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the
bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the deck
rests. -- Hook and eye, one of the small
wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc. -- Hook bill (Zoöl.), the strongly curved beak of a bird.
-- Hook ladder, a ladder with
hooks at the end by which
it can be
suspended, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V
hooks. -- Hook squid, any squid which has the arms
furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and
Onychteuthis. -- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a
jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.
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