Definitions for the word "hook" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
See Eccentric, and V-hook.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A snare; a trap.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A field sown two years in succession.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To steal.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
To bend; to curve as a hook.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
1 a bent or curved piece of metal etc. For catching hold or for hanging things on. B (in full fish-hook) bent piece of wire for catching fish. 2 curved cutting instrument (reaping-hook). 3 bend in a river, curved strip of land, etc. 4 a hooking stroke. B boxing short swinging blow. v. 1 grasp or secure with hook(s). 2 catch with or as with a hook. 3 slang steal. 4 (in sports) send (the ball) in a curve or deviating path. 5 rugby secure (the ball) and pass it backward with the foot in the scrum. by hook or by crook by one means or another. Off the hook 1 colloq. Out of difficulty or trouble. 2 (of a telephone receiver) not on its rest. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. slang
an expression at Oxford, implying doubt, either connected with
Hookey Walker, or with a note of interrogation (?) “Yes, with a HOOK at
the end of it!” _i.e._, with some reservation, generally that of doubt,
by the speaker.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
14. slang
to steal or rob. _See_ the following.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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