Hooked
['hʊkt] or [hʊkt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Hook
(a.) Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.
(a.) Provided with a hook or hooks.
Typed by Ellie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Bent, curved, curvated, hamate.
Edited by Amber
Examples
- His walk was soft; his voice was melancholy; his long lanky fingers were hooked like claws. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The man to whom Pilar spoke was short and heavy, brownfaced, with broad cheekbones; gray haired, with wide-set yellowbrown eyes, a thin-bridged, hooked nose like an Indian's, a long Upper lip and a wide, thin mouth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And she ses to me 'do it' and I dun it and she giv me a sov'ring and hooked it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I held it on both sides, sitting astride the handle hooked over the seat. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I hooked your Bargeman's bundle out of the river. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Their noses are all hooked, and hooked alike. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Look at them with their hooked beaks, Becky said, getting into the buggy, her picture under her arm, in great glee. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mary Anne laid down her work, rose, hooked herself behind, as being under catechization, and replied: 'No, it is a corruption, Miss Peecher. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Fish he hooked or harpooned. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As to the Whigs, a man who goes with the thinkers is not likely to be hooked on by any party. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I then stept over the building very conveniently from one stool to the other, and drew up the first after me with a hooked stick. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He was watching Pilar, her head bare, her shoulders broad, her knees higher than her thighs as her heels hooked into the bundles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They climbed high trees as nimbly as a squirrel, for they had strong extended claws before and behind, terminating in sharp points, and hooked. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Then the bucket was hooked on; and the sobered man and another got in with lights, giving the word 'Lower away! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Mary Anne hooked her right arm behind her in her left hand, as being under examination, and replied: 'Personal pronoun. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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