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The Meaning of hook
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(v. t.) 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.
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(v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
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(v. t.) To steal.
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(v. i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
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(n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
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(n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
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(n.) A snare; a trap.
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(n.) A field sown two years in succession.
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(n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
Synonyms
hook shot
,
crotchet
,
lure
,
sweetener
,
claw
,
bait
,
hooking
,
come-on
,
draw
,
queerness
,
quarter note
,
quirk
,
oddity
,
quirkiness
,
sweetening
,
decoy
,
enticement
,
chela
,
nipper
,
pincer
,
haul
,
standoff
,
lot
,
drawing card
,
attractor
,
draw play
,
tie
,
draw poker
,
attracter
,
attraction
,
haulage
,
fleece
,
thieve
,
filch
,
cabbage
,
surcharge
,
sneak
,
snare
,
knock off
,
snarf
,
swipe
,
addict
,
purloin
,
pluck
,
accost
,
nobble
,
pilfer
,
crochet
,
overcharge
,
pinch
,
soak
,
lift
,
gazump
,
rob
,
glom
,
solicit
,
snitch
,
plume
,
cop
,
abstract
,
pride
,
dress
,
congratulate
,
cull
,
preen
,
douse
,
drench
,
hit it up
,
displume
,
pick off
,
roll
,
pull off
,
souse
,
pull
,
pawn
,
deplume
,
hustle
,
dowse
,
shear
,
plunk
,
primp
,
hock
,
tweak
,
pick
,
deplumate
,
overload
,
sop
,
imbue
,
inebriate
,
tear
,
intoxicate
,
betray
,
neutralise
,
fling off
,
shave
,
liquidate
,
nail
,
collar
,
arrest
,
nab
,
dash off
,
neutralize
,
shit
,
do in
,
give away
,
scratch off
,
toss off
,
stag
,
apprehend
,
shop
,
grass
,
pick up
,
drop
,
denounce
,
tell on
,
waste
,
rat
,
elevate
,
rook
,
mouse
,
top
,
victimize
,
uprise
,
arise
,
repeal
,
kidnap
,
vellicate
,
crimp
,
con
,
vacate
,
defraud
,
hornswoggle
,
reverse
,
pussyfoot
,
go up
,
plagiarise
,
bring up
,
airlift
,
raise
,
revoke
,
rise
,
abduct
,
move up
,
get up
,
squeeze
,
gyp
,
swindle
,
come up
,
creep
,
diddle
,
wind
,
countermand
,
bunco
,
twitch
,
rear
,
rustle
,
hoist
,
short-change
,
goldbrick
,
snatch
,
scam
,
nip
,
tweet
,
face-lift
,
mulct
,
gip
,
plagiarize
,
twinge
,
rescind
,
annul
,
slip
,
overturn
,
trap
,
trammel
,
ensnare
,
entrap
,
romance
,
come up to
,
address
,
woo
,
tap
,
beg
,
court
,
lock
,
bar
,
catch
,
fastening
,
bolt
,
clasp
,
hasp
,
latch
Antonyms
unhook
Homophones
hooke
Rhymes
bankbook
,
benbrook
,
book
,
brook
,
brooke
,
checkbook
,
chinook
,
chook
,
cook
,
cookbook
,
cooke
,
create-a-book
,
crook
,
crooke
,
decook
,
donnybrook
,
flook
,
forsook
,
gobbledygook
,
gook
,
guidebook
,
handbook
,
holbrook
,
hooke
,
hornbook
,
inglenook
,
jokebook
,
kirkuk
,
logbook
,
look
,
matchbook
,
mccook
,
mistook
,
mook
,
nook
,
notebook
,
outlook
,
overbook
,
overcook
,
overlook
,
overtook
,
passbook
,
pocketbook
,
precook
,
rebook
,
rook
,
rooke
,
rulebook
,
schnook
,
schook
,
schoolbook
,
scrapbook
,
shnook
,
shook
,
sketchbook
,
snook
,
storybook
,
stroock
,
strook
,
subnotebook
,
textbook
,
took
,
tooke
,
undercook
,
undertook
,
unhook
,
vanhook
,
westbrook
,
yearbook
,
zook