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Hook (ho͝ok; 277), 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.”
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2. 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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3. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
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Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook. Pope.
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4. (Steam Engin.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
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5. A snare; a trap. [R.] Shak.
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6. A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.]
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7. pl. The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
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8. (Geog.) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as, “Sandy Hook in New Jersey”.
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9. (Sports) The curving motion of a ball, as in bowling or baseball, curving away from the hand which threw the ball; in golf, a curving motion in the direction of the golfer who struck the ball.
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10. (Computers) A procedure within the encoding of a computer program which allows the user to modify the program so as to import data from or export data to other programs.
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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 hook, freed from some obligation or difficulty; as, “to get off the hook by getting someone else to do the job”. [Colloq.] -- 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 (Zool.), 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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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.”
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Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. W. Collins.
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2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
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3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]
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To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.
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Hook (?), v. i.
1. To bend; to curve as a hook.
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2. 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.
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