Hooks

Examples

• These are termed bridge hooks and are for the purpose of having the cue-bridge ready of access for the players when necessary. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But, mark my words, the first woman who fishes for him, hooks him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Some had sickles and reaping hooks but these Pablo placed at the far end where the lines reached the edge of the cliff. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Primitive sickles or reaping hooks made of flint or bronze are found among the remains left by the older nations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The crew had been able to muster but six firearms, so most of them were armed with boat hooks, axes, hatchets and crowbars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Safety pins, hooks and eyes, and hairpins, are generally made by pin concerns. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I had two hooks. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Four hooks are then fastened to the frame, underneath the table, near the corner legs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It only seems yesterday when you were at your pot-hooks, labouring away absolutely with both hands at the pen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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