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HookedHook Hook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hooking.]
1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize,
capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or
baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice;
to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. --W.
Collins.
2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle
in attacking enemies; to gore.
3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]
To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook. Hooked
Hooked Hooked, a.
1. Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill
of a bird.
2. Provided with a hook or hooks. ``The hooked chariot.'
--Milton.
Hookedness
Hookedness Hook"ed*ness, n.
The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
hookeyHooky Hook"y, n. [Written also hookey.] [Cf. Hook, v. t.,
3.]
A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to run
away, to play truant.
This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and ``hooky,'
and marbles, was all moonshine. --F. Hopkinson
Smith. hookeyHockey Hock"ey, n. [From Hook, n.]
1. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks
curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small
object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
2. The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and
hawkey.] HookeyHookey Hook"ey, n.
See Hockey. Unhooked
Unhooked Un*hooked", a.
Without nooks and corners; guileless. [Obs.] ``Unnooked
simplicity.' --Marston.
Meaning of Hooke from wikipedia
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Robert Hooke FRS (/hʊk/; 18 July 1635 – 3
March 1703) was an
English polymath who was
active as a
physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist...
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Hooke may
refer to:
Hooke, Dorset,
England River Hooke,
nearby watercourse Hooke Court,
former manor house at
Hooke Hooke Park,
Woodland to
south west...
- In physics,
Hooke's law is an
empirical law
which states that the
force (F)
needed to
extend or
compress a
spring by some
distance (x)
scales linearly...
- John
Hooke may
refer to: John
Hooke (academic), 13th-century
Chancellor of the
University of
Cambridge John
Hooke (politician) (c. 1605 – 1685), Member...
- Huon
Hooke is an
Australian wine
writer and critic.
Hooke is the
Chair of the Vin de
Champagne Awards and
judge of the
Australian Winemaker of the Year...
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Thomas Hooke may
refer to:
Thomas Hooke (mayor) (died 1670),
Mayor of
Dublin Sir
Thomas Hooke of the
Hooke baronets Thomas Hook (1860–1927),
Ontario real...
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Humphrey Hooke (1580 – c. 1658) was an
English politician who sat in the
House of
Commons from 1640 to 1642. He
supported the
Royalist cause in the English...
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Della Hooke, FSA (born 1939) is a
British historical geographer and academic, who
specialises in
landscape history and
Anglo Saxon England. On 5 May 1990...
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Hooke is a surname.
Notable people with the
surname include:
Hilda Mary
Hooke (1898–1978),
Canadian writer John
Hooke (1270–1275),
Chancellor of the University...
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knowledge of
various clever mechanisms,
including gimbals Hooke joint or
Hooke's joint,
after Robert Hooke, a
polymath of the 17th
century who
contributed to...
