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- English Word Hook Definition To bend; to curve as a hook.
- English Word Hook-billed Definition Having a strongly curved bill.
- English Word Hook-nosed Definition Having a hooked or aquiline nose.
- English Word Hookah Definition A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.
- English Word Hooke's gearing Definition Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.
- English Word Hooke's joint Definition A universal joint. See under Universal.
- English Word Hooked Definition of Hook
- English Word Hooked Definition Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.
- English Word Hooked Definition Provided with a hook or hooks.
- English Word Hookedness Definition The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
- English Word Hooker Definition One who, or that which, hooks.
- English Word Hooker Definition A Dutch vessel with two masts.
- English Word Hooker Definition A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland.
- English Word Hooker Definition A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
- English Word Hookey Definition See Hockey.
- English Word Hooking Definition of Hook
- English Word Hooklet Definition A little hook.
- English Word Hooky Definition Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
- English Word Hool Definition Whole.
- English Word Hoolock Definition A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.
- English Word Hoom Definition Home.
- English Word Hoonoomaun Definition An Indian monkey. See Entellus.
- English Word Hoop Definition A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
- English Word Hoop Definition A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
- English Word Hoop Definition A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- English Word Hoop Definition A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
- English Word Hoop Definition An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
- English Word Hoop Definition To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
- English Word Hoop Definition To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
- English Word Hoop Definition To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.