A type of hook attached to a line and designed to be thrown at a target (e.g. rigging of an enemy ship) for the purpose of catching hold of it.

A hook used by a butcher for hanging carcasses or meat. / (Cockney rhyming slang, singular only) Synonym of butcher's

(physics) the principle that the stress applied to a solid is directly proportional to the strain produced. This law describes the behavior of springs and solids stressed within their elastic limit.

(transitive) To assemble the parts of a mechanism, especially by connecting wires. / (transitive) To connect to something like a power supply or a signal source.

a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs. / (slang, usu. plural) One's hands or arms.

(fishing) A fishhook where three hooks share a single shank, each point separated by 120º.

simple past tense and past participle of hook up

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

An ogonek (˛). / A retroflex hook (̢). / A cedilla (¸). / other similar diacritics

Alternative form of switchhook