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HOOK, n.

1. A piece of iron or other metal bent into a curve for catching, holding and sustaining any thing as a hook for catching fish a teeter-hook a chimney-hook a pot-hook, &c.

2. A snare a trap.

3. A curving instrument for cutting grass or grain a sickle an instrument for cutting or lopping.

4. That part of a hinge which is fixed or inserted in a post. Whence the phrase, to be off the hooks, to be unhinged, to be disturbed or disordered.

5. A forked timber in a ship, placed on the keel.

6. A catch an advantage. Vulgar.

7. In husbandry, a field sown two years running. Local.

By hook and by crook, one way or other by any means, direct or indirect.

HOOK, To catch with a hook as, to hook a fish.

1. To seize and draw, as with a hook.

2. To fasten with a hook.

3. To entrap to ensnare.

4. To draw by force or artifice.

To hook on, to apply a hook.

HOOK, To bend to be curving.