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Definition of Hookers
1. hooker [n] - See also: hooker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hookers
Literary usage of Hookers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of by Henry Frank Eshleman (1917)
"wore buttons: one called the "pinners" because they used wire pins and another
the "hookers" because they wore hooks and eyes to fasten their clothes. ..."
2. Deep-sea Fishing and Fishing Boats: An Account of the Practical Working of by Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth (1874)
"... of mackerel to England — French fishing boats — Attempted establishment of a
pilchard fishery —Objections to it by the fishermen — Kinsale hookers ..."
3. Shakspere's England; or, Sketches of our social history in the reign of by George Walter Thornbury (1856)
"hookers. — Anecdotes of each. — Tinkers. — Abram Men. — Sham Sores (Poor Tom).
— Counterfeit Soldiers. — The Crank. — Story. — Freshwater Mariners. ..."
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