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Definition of Hooks
1. Noun. Large strong hand (as of a fighter). "Wait till I get my hooks on him"
Definition of Hooks
1. Noun. (plural of hook) ¹
2. Verb. (third-person singular of hook) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hooks
1. hook [v] - See also: hook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooks
Literary usage of Hooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"tlon hooks entered into certain covenants and agreements relating to the manner
... There were provisions in this application requiring hooks to furnish the ..."
2. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME. (1880)
"There was also a great advantage in the system inasmuch as it came into operation
without putting any shock upon the engine; whereas the safety- hooks, ..."
3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"22 (16) Genital hooks unequal in length. Body 2.5 to 2.7 by 0.71 to 0.78 mm.
Genital coronet 36 to 42 equal hooks. Caudal suckers large, crowded. ..."
4. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1872)
"On the other hand, the margin of the fore-wing is strengthened, and is turned
over with a shallow doubling, so as to make a groove into which the hooks ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1863)
"The instrument consists of a pair of iron plates, each furnished at one end with
two double sharp pointed hooks. One pair of these hooks is thrust through ..."
6. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1859)
"There are also the Kendal or Kirby Sneek, and Carlisle hooks, ... O'Shaughnessey
used to make his hooks as here described: "They Iire at first small ..."
7. Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books by Alice Bertha Kroeger, Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1917)
"For I have long known how much hooks of reference fail of all the good which ...
hy careful study of reference hooks, hy familiarity with the arrangement of ..."
8. Book of the Black Bass, Comprising Its Complete Scientific and Life History by James Alexander Henshall (1881)
"THE best fish-hooks are made in England, that country supplying the world with
hooks of all sizes and styles, for all kinds of fishing. ..."
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