Results for hook

Definitions of hook:

part of speech: noun

A piece of metal bent into a curve, so as to catch or hold anything: a snare: an instrument for cutting grain.

part of speech: verb

To catch, draw, or fasten, as with a hook; to draw by force or artifice; to bend.

part of speech: verb transitive

To catch or hold with a hook: to draw as with a hook: to insnare.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To bend: to be curved.

part of speech: noun

A curved piece of metal, bone, etc., to hold or catch something, as a fish- hook; a trap; an instrument for lopping or cutting, as a sickle; a cape or headland.

part of speech: noun

A piece of metal or other substance bent or curved so as to catch, hold, or sustain; a curved cutting instrument; a sickle; a snare; a trap.

part of speech: verb transitive

To catch with, or as with, a hook; to gore or attack with the horns; said of a horned animal.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To bend in the shape of a hook; become fastened to anything with a hook; with on; in golf, to drive widely to the left.