BILLHOOK | • billhook n. (Weaponry) A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding… • billhook n. An agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting… • billhook n. Written as bill-hook: a part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery). |
BOATHOOK | • boathook n. A hook attached to a pole used for pulling or pushing boats, rafts, logs or other objects to or from… • boathook n. (By extension) A pole or rod with such a hook at one end. • boat-hook n. Alternative spelling of boathook. |
BUTTONHOOK | • buttonhook n. (Sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button. • buttonhook n. A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes. • buttonhook n. (American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the… |
CANTHOOK | • canthook n. Alternative form of cant hook. • cant␣hook n. A traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook at one end… • CANTHOOK n. a metal hook on a long handle used to move logs, also CANTDOG. |
CHOOK | • chook n. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen. • chook n. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking. • chook n. (Australia, dated) A fool. |
EYEHOOK | • eyehook n. Alternative form of eye hook. • eye␣hook n. A hook with an eye or ring attached. • EYEHOOK n. a hook or ring on the end of a rope or chain. |
FISHHOOK | • fishhook n. A barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing. • fishhook n. (Slang) a jack (the playing card). • fish␣hook n. Alternative form of fishhook (a hook used in fishing). |
GRASSHOOK | • grasshook n. A sickle. • GRASSHOOK n. a sickle; a kind of tropical finch. |
HOOK | • hook n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. • hook n. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook. • hook n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook. |
MEATHOOK | • meathook n. Alternative spelling of meat hook. • meat␣hook n. A two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs. • meat␣hook n. (Slang, usu. plural) One’s hands or arms. |
MUDHOOK | • mudhook n. (Slang) An anchor, as used in the game of crown and anchor. • MUDHOOK n. (slang) an anchor. |
POTHOOK | • pothook n. An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire. • pothook n. A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl. • pot-hook n. Alternative spelling of pothook. |
REAPHOOK | • reaphook n. A sickle. • reap␣hook n. A sickle. • REAPHOOK n. an implement used in reaping. |
SHOOK | • shook n. A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood. • shook n. The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together. • shook v. To pack (Staves, etc.) in a shook. |
SKYHOOK | • skyhook n. A hook imagined to be suspended in midair. • skyhook n. An overhead winch. • skyhook n. A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable. |
SPOONHOOK | • spoonhook n. Alternative form of spoon hook. • spoon-hook n. Alternative form of spoon hook. • spoon␣hook n. Synonym of spoon lure. |
TAILHOOK | • tailhook n. A device attached to the empennage of some military fixed-wing aircraft, used to achieve rapid deceleration… • TAILHOOK n. a hook lowered from the tail of an aircraft to engage a braking cable. |
TENTERHOOK | • tenterhook n. One of a series of hooks used to stretch cloth on a tenter. • tenter-hook n. Alternative form of tenterhook. • tenter␣hook n. Alternative form of tenterhook. |
UNHOOK | • unhook v. (Transitive) To remove from a hook. • unhook v. (Transitive) To unfasten by means of hooks. • unhook v. (Transitive, colloquial) To unfasten the bra of (its wearer). |