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(regional, of a body part) Bent or formed into a hook.
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A hook or fastener on clothing.
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(medicine) A baton with a slightly hooked end, used to perform amniotomy.
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(informal, chiefly in the plural) A tall handlebar.
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A hook-like projection on the arm of a cephalopod, such as on the armhook squid (Gonatus fabricii).
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(climbing) Synonym of skyhook
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A device used on a woodworking bench to hold a workpiece in place
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Alternative form of billhook [(weaponry) A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill]
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A knot that can be used to create a handle for a glass or ceramic container with a slippery narrow neck.
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(obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
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An awl with a blade similar to a small, straight screwdriver; used for making holes, especially in wood to take screws.
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A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
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(mechanical trades) A bar inside a hammer mill against which the milled material is thrown by the hammers; the material breaks upon hitting it.
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(military) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, used to drag manoeuvre guns where horses cannot be used.
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(architecture) A strong flat bar of iron, bent so as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc. where no sufficient bearing can be had.
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Alternative name for the Inglefield clip
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A form of traction for fractures of the femur, involving a weight and pulley.
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A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
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A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
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A traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook at one end, used for handling and moving logs.
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Alternative form of cheese wire [A wire which is sufficiently strong, yet fine enough to cut through cheese easily. Normally with either a wooden handle at each end, or fixed to a board at one end, with a wooden handle at the other.]
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A tool by which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.
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(military) A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
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A sign that is cut so that it can be hung from the handle or knob of a door.
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(military, historical) One of the hooks on a cannon carriage, used in drawing the gun backward and forward.
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Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
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A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
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A hook with an eye or ring attached.
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A flat turn or tier of rope.
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(chiefly historical and obsolete outside dialects) A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
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A grappling hook or grappling iron.
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A type of hook attached to a line and designed to be thrown at a target (e.g. rigging of an enemy ship) for the purpose of catching hold of it.
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(ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
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Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped
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(now historical) A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
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A loop made of other material, as rope or metal, attached to tools, pendants, picture frames, etc.
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A hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.
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a shackle shaped so that the opening is smaller than the circumference of the loop.
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(obsolete) A grappling hook.
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A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
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A device used in spearfishing, operating much like a bow and arrow on land, but with its energy stored in rubber tubing rather than a shaft.
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A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
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A matched hook and an eye (loop into which the hook can fit), used for fastening.
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A ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall.
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(construction) A pin with a hooked head, used to pin together the frame of a floor or roof.
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Obsolete spelling of hook [A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.]
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An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
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Alternative spelling of hubcap [A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel.]
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(military) An armor-plated warship.
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(equestrianism) The stirrups.
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A type of bit that has bit shanks, D rings, and a curb chain
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A peg or hook for hanging something on
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In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
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Alternative spelling of marlinspike [A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splicing.]
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Alternative spelling of marlinspike [A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splicing.]
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Alternative spelling of marlinspike [A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splicing.]
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Alternative spelling of marlinspike [A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splicing.]
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Alternative spelling of marlinspike [A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splicing.]
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A piece of knotted rope by which to attach a hook, to save the hand from jamming.
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A hook with an attachment which prevents its unhooking.
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A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end.
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A pin used to fix the picket rope for a horse to the ground.
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A metal tip to a pole that is to be driven into the ground
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(by extension) A list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.
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(engineering) A bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post.
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An iron pin with barbed shank.
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(basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.
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a ring-shaped extension on the top of a can or tin, which one pulls to open it.
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(basketry) The weaving of baskets from rods.
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A metal plate inserted as a stiffening between the leather parts of a shank.
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A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
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The shaft or thill of a carriage.
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One of a pair of iron hooks used as part of a sling.
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A small stone that is projected or thrown from a sling.
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A stone, bullet, or other such missile or projectile thrown by a sling.
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A tool to aid cable pulling.
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A string with clips on each end to hold socks together as a pair before placing them in the wash.
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(fishing) A form of mechanical gun that fires a spear as a projectile; generally used under water when spearfishing.
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The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.
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A bar, usually made from plastic or sometimes wood, that separates each person's groceries on a checkout conveyor belt, such as in a supermarket, its length being a little less than the width of the belt.
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(ropemaking) A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
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A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
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An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
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A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
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Alternative form of tenterhook [One of a series of hooks used to stretch cloth on a tenter.]
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Alternative form of tenterhook [One of a series of hooks used to stretch cloth on a tenter.]
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One of a series of hooks used to stretch cloth on a tenter.
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(military, aviation) An air combat maneuver, to use when an enemy is chasing one of a pair of alliied aircraft. The chasee weaves back and forth in a path, to lead the chaser into a position, so that the wingmate of the chasee can maneuver in a reciprocal weave, to target the chaser body-on.
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(UK, dialect) A ladder-like extension fitted to the front, rear, and sometimes sides of a haywagon or other towed agricultural trailer so as to increase its capacity.
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(archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
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Bent in the form of a hook
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A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting lance, to stabilize and protect the hand.
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two spiral blades arranged something like a corkscrew and fastened to a ramrod for extracting spherical objects from the bottom of a bore-hole, particularly a bullet from the barrel of a firearm
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Alternative spelling of wad hook [two spiral blades arranged something like a corkscrew and fastened to a ramrod for extracting spherical objects from the bottom of a bore-hole, particularly a bullet from the barrel of a firearm]
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Alternative spelling of wad hook [two spiral blades arranged something like a corkscrew and fastened to a ramrod for extracting spherical objects from the bottom of a bore-hole, particularly a bullet from the barrel of a firearm]
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A ropemakers' hook used in twisting rope-yarns.
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(music, lutherie, bowmaking) Lapping.
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A hexagonal network of interwoven wire used in fencing; chicken wire.
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