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(historical) A stake or pole serving as a sign at an alehouse or inn, often with a garland or "bush" attached.
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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]
n
Written as bill-hook: a part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
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(US, dialect, archaic, New York) A large basket woven from oak splints.
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Alternative form of brandreth [(now historical) A tripod or stand for a cask, a haystack, etc.]
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A hook used by a butcher for hanging carcasses or meat.
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Alternative form of cant hook [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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(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
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Alternative form of deling (“kind of hammock conveyance”) [(obsolete) A kind of hammock conveyance, suspended from a pole, used in Pegu.]
n
The iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw.
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A police nightstick with an attached strap by which it can be swung, used originally in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Alternative form of spontoon [A pointed weapon similar to a pike.]
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Alternative spelling of fish-knife [A knife for cutting and serving fish at table.]
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(historical) A hook designed to lift meat out of boiling water.
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(obsolete) A lever used to bend a crossbow.
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A hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.
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An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
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(obsolete, rare) A hook.
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(dated, brass founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible.
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A hook on the back of a knife blade, used for skinning or removing the organs of a dead animal.
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Alternative spelling of gut hook [A hook on the back of a knife blade, used for skinning or removing the organs of a dead animal.]
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(weaponry) A hunting implement, a long pole with a pick and hammer on the end, used by sealers to bludgeon seals and drag their carcasses to the sealing boat.
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(Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
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Alternative form of half-pike [(military) A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon]
adj
Bearing a small hook at the end
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(leatherworking) A hand tool used to apply pressure to skins in order to finish them.
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A kind of hayfork, consisting of a bar with hinged barbs at one end and a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power.
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A crude rope made from hay.
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(printing, historical) A straight piece of furniture placed at the head of a form, between the chase and the type.
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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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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]
v
(bridge, slang) To finesse.
n
(especially in natural history) A small or minute hook.
adj
Full of hooks (all senses).
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A horse-drawn tool for hoeing, resembling a small plough.
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Alternative form of hose reel. [A reel on which a hose is rolled up when it is not in use.]
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Alternative spelling of icepick [A pointed tool, rather like an awl, used for breaking ice.]
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A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
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A hunter's stick for striking hares.
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A piece of metal on a sword hilt which overhangs the scabbard.
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A knobbed mallet used by curriers make leather supple when dressing it.
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a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.
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Alternative spelling of meat hook [a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.]
n
The end of a sheephook to which the hook is attached.
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(obsolete) Alternative form of nuthook [A hook on a pole to pull down boughs for gathering nuts.]
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Alternative spelling of peavy [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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The wooden shaft of a pike.
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A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
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Obsolete form of poniard. [(now chiefly historical) A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.]
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Alternative spelling of pruning hook [billhook]
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Alternative form of pruning hook [billhook]
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(UK dialectal, Northern England) A chain or bar drilled with holes to accommodate pot-hooks from which cooking vessels can be suspended over a fire; a pot-hook.
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A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
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A sharp-edged tool used for scraping, or for removing paint etc.
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crook, a staff used by shepherds
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Either of a pair of hooks fitted together, the shank of one forming a mousing for the other.
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A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
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A harpoon with one or more pivoted crosspieces in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned.
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A toggle iron used in whaling.
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Alternative spelling of tree trunk [The main structural member of a tree.]
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a wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal.
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(historical) A kind of trap used to catch wolves, consisting of an upper part resembling a crescent moon, meant to be fastened between tree branches, and a lower part (connected by a chain) in the form of a double hook, meant to be covered with meat and swallowed by a wolf.
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A basket used to hold materials for needlework, etc.
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(obsolete, dialect) A stake used for bracing.
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A long pole, used in scaffolding, that is made of fir.
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