Definition of Hook

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Definition of Hook

Hook

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 snare; a trap.

A field sown two years in succession.

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

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.

To steal.

To bend; to curve as a hook.

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;

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

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Hook Quotations

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.
Mitch Hedberg

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
Lee Trevino

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Ovid

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Ovid

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.
Jeffrey Sachs

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
Kevin Bacon

Hook Translations

hook in Danish is medekrog
hook in Dutch is haakje, slot, spang, agraaf
hook in Finnish is haka
hook in German is haken, anhaken, haken
hook in Italian is gancio
hook in Norwegian is hake, krok, knagg, hekte
hook in Portuguese is gancho, anzol
hook in Spanish is gancho, anzuelo
hook in Swedish is haka fast, koppla, hake, krok

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