hook

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  1. noun A curved or sharply bent device, usually of metal, used to catch, drag, suspend, or fasten something else.
  2. noun A fishhook.
  3. noun Something shaped like a hook, especially:
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  • So the guy with the hook was the only one, but he was already swinging the shotgun around.
  • If this is all they need as a hook, they could easily make a game out of —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • The crane hook height is measured by the distance from the floor to the bottom of the hook when the hook is all the way up.
  • People in their 50s and 60s have the financial wherewithal to pay for entertainment, and the hook is a glimpse of lost youth. —  Tonight
  • Hands off: Prosthetic arms and even a hook are among the items collected by Sir Henry Wellcome —  Home | Mail Online
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

bolt ·  rod ·  knife ·  pin ·  wire ·  rope ·  nail ·  lock ·  pole ·  chain ·  lever ·  stick

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hook:   hooks ·  hooking ·  hooked
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English hok, from Old English hōc; see keg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hok, from Anglo-Saxon hōc, sometimes spelled (to show the long vowel) hooc = Middle Dutch hoek, hoeck, a hook, Dutch hoek, a hook, angle, corner, quarter, cape (later Danish Swedish huk, a cape), = Low German huk, a hook, edge, corner; the kindred forms have a different vowel, and agree with Anglo-Saxon haca, a bolt or bar of a door, Middle English *hake, English dial. hake, a hook: see hake, hake, hatch.
  2. from Middle English hoken; from the noun.
 

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