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- noun A
hook shaped bend in ariver ,road etc.
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Examples
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In one pocket was his long, light, hand-line, carefully coiled, with a selected sneck-bend hook of tempered steel made fast to the line by the smallest and firmest of knots.
Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892
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The delicate black hackle which Mr. Stewart praises so highly (and which should always be tied on a square sneck-bend hook) will kill in June and
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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