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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.

Having a strongly curved bill.

Having a hooked or aquiline nose. Shak.

A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.

Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

A universal joint. See under Universal.

Having the form of a hookl curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

One who, or that which, hooks.

See Hockey.

A little hook.

Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten.

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. [U. S.] Bartlett.

A hook for catching fish.

See Futtock.

ced across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.

A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. [Written also cranging hook.]