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approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

anything that serves as an enticement

take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!"

a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he tooks lessons to cure his hooking"

rip off; ask an unreasonable price

a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket

a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent

a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something

a catch for locking a door

fasten with a hook

secure with the foot; "hook the ball"

catch with a hook; "hook a fish"

hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly"

hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left

approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

anything that serves as an enticement

take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!"

a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he tooks lessons to cure his hooking"

rip off; ask an unreasonable price

a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket

a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent

a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something

a catch for locking a door

fasten with a hook

hit with a hook; in boxing; "His opponent hooked him badly"

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.

That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

See Eccentric, and V-hook.

A field sown two years in succession.

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.

To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook.

To move or go with a sudden turn;

The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; - called also hook bones.

to make off; to clear out; - often with it.

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.

That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

See Eccentric, and V-hook.

A field sown two years in succession.

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.

To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook.

To move or go with a sudden turn;

The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; - called also hook bones.

to make off; to clear out; - often with it.

A curved piece of metal, bone, etc., to hold or catch something, as a fish-hook; a trap; an instrument for lopping or cutting, as a sickle; a cape or headland.

To catch with, or as with, a hook; to gore or attack with the horns; said of a horned animal.

To bend in the shape of a hook; become fastened to anything with a hook; with on; in golf, to drive widely to the left.

An instrument curved or bent near its tip, used for fixation of a part or traction.

Instrument with pointed terminal curve.

A piece of metal bent into a curve, so as to catch or hold anything: a snare: an instrument for cutting grain.

To catch or hold with a hook: to draw as with a hook: to insnare.

To bend: to be curved.

Anything bent or curved that takes hold.

To catch or hold with a hook.

To fasten with a hook; entrap.

To attack with the horns, as a cow.

Something bent so as to hold another object, as a fish hook.

A piece of metal bent into a curve for catching and holding anything; a square; a curved instrument for cutting grain; a sickle; that part of a hinge which is fixed or inserted in a post; a forked timber in a ship, placed on the keel.

To catch with a hook; to draw, as with a hook; to ensnare.

To bend; to be curving. By hook or by crook. See Crook. Off the hooks out of sorts; dead.

A piece of metal or other substance bent or curved so as to catch, hold, or sustain; a curved cutting instrument; a sickle; a snare; a trap.

To catch, draw, or fasten, as with a hook; to draw by force or artifice; to bend.

An instrument, consisting of a steel wire, flattened at the middle, and having the extremities crooked and pointed. Some hooks are furnished with a handle at one extremity-the other having one or two hooks ;-constituting the tingle or double hook. The hook is used by anatomists and surgeons to lay hold of, and raise up, certain parts, the dissection of which is delicate, or which would slip from the fingers. The Tenaculum is a variety of the hook.

Curved instrument for traction or holding.

A length of metal bent back or fashioned with a sharp angle for catching hold of something. See Tenaculum, and Volsella.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] Some hard material bent into a curve for catching, holding, and sustaining any thing. [Welsh] A scythe or sickle.

Any thing bent to as to catch hold; the bended wire on which the bait is hung for fishes, and with which the fish is pierced; a snare, a trap; a fickle to reap corn; an iron to seize the meat in the caldron; an instrument to cut or lop with; the part of the hinge fixed to the post; Hook or crook, one way or other, by any expedient.