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Hook
·noun A snare; a trap. II. Hook ·noun ·see <<Eccentric>>, and V-hook. III. Hook ·vt To <<Steal>>. ...

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Hook
1) Heb. hah, a "ring" inserted in the nostrils of animals to which a cord was fastened for the purpo...

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hook
(Dutch, hock, a corner.) This name is given in New York to several angular points in the North and E...

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hook
There are several kinds used at sea, as boat-hooks, can-hooks, cat-hooks, fish-hooks, and the like. ...

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Hook
Hooks Various kinds of hooks are noticed in the Bible, of which the following are the most importan...

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Sail
·noun A wing; a van. II. Sail ·noun To set sail; to begin a voyage. III. Sail ·noun The extended s...

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sail
The terms applicable to the parts of a sail comprise: Seaming the cloths together; cutting the gor...

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sprit-sail top-sail
A sail extended above the sprit-sail by a yard, which hung under the jib-boom. ♦ Top-gallant sprit...

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Can hook
·- A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by...

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Cant hook
·- A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; — used for canting or turning over heavy ...

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Hook-billed
·adj Having a strongly curved bill. ...

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Hook-nosed
·adj Having a hooked or aquiline nose. ...

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Kranging hook
·- A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. ...

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V hook
·- A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V. ...

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Flesh-hook
A many-pronged fork used in the sacrificial services (1 Sam. 2:13, 14; Ex. 27:3; 38:3) by the priest...

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cant-hook
A wooden lever, with an iron hook at one end, with which heavy articles of merchandise or timber are...

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bank-hook
A large fish-hook laid baited in running water, attached by a line to the bank. ...

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bid-hook
A small kind of boat-hook. ...

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bill-hook
A species of hatchet used in wooding a ship, similar to that used by hedgers. ...

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boat-hook
An iron hook with a straight prong at its hinder part; it is fixed upon a pole, by the help of which...

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cant-hook
A lever with a hook at one end for heavy articles. ...

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cat-hook
A strong hook which is a continuation of the iron strop of the cat-block, used to hook the ring of t...

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chain-hook
An iron rod with a handling-eye at one end, and a hook at the other, for hauling the chain-cables ab...

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clasp-hook
An iron clasp, in two parts, moving upon the same pivot, and overlapping one another. Used for bendi...

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clove-hook
Synonymous with clasp-hook. ...

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deck-hook
The compass timber bolted horizontally athwart a ship's bow, connecting the stem, timbers, and deck-...

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gaff-hook
In fishing, a strong iron hook set on a handle, supplementing the powers of the line and fish-hook w...

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gorge-hook
Two hooks separated by a piece of lead, for the taking of pike or other voracious fish. ...

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hawse-hook
A compass breast timber which crosses the hawse-timber above the ends of the upper-deck planking, an...

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hook-block
Any block, of iron or wood, strapped with a hook. ...

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hook-bolts
Those used to secure lower-deck ports. ...

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hook-pots
Tin cans fitted to hang on the bars of the galley range. ...

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hook-ropes
A rope 6 or 8 fathoms long, with a hook and thimble spliced at one end, and whipped at the other: it...

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hook-scarph
In ship-carpentry, the joining of two pieces of wood by a strong method of hook-butting, which mode ...

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keel hook
Means any anchor; as, "she has come to a keelock." ...

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pump-hook
An iron rod with an eye and a hook, used for drawing out the lower pump-box when requisite. ...

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rave-hook
In ship carpentry, a hooked iron tool used when enlarging the butts for receiving a sufficient quant...

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towing-hook
See towing-bridle. ...

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wad-hook
An iron tool shaped like a double cork-screw on the end of a long staff, for withdrawing wads or cha...

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Studding sail
·- A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase...

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Water sail
·- A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to t...

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Main-sail
(Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," ...

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top sail
He paid his debts at Portsmouth with the topsail; i.e. he went to. sea and left them unpaid. SCT sol...

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drag-sail
Any sail with its clues stopped so as when veered away over the quarter to make a stop-water when ve...

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drift-sail
A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind. ...

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fore-sail
The principal sail set on the fore-mast. (See sail.) ...

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ghrime-sail
The old term for a smoke-sail. ...

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lug-sail
A sail used in boats and small vessels. It is in form like a gaff-sail, but depends entirely on the ...

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main-sail
This, in a square-rigged vessel, is distinguished by the so-termed square main-sail; in a fore-and-a...

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sail burton
A purchase extending from topmast-head to deck, for sending sails aloft ready for bending; it usuall...

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sail ho!
The exclamation used when a strange ship is first discerned at sea either from the deck or from the ...

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sail-loft
A large apartment in dockyards where the sails are cut out and made. ...

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sail-loosers
Men specially appointed to loose the sails when getting under weigh, or loosing them to dry. ...

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sail-maker
A qualified person who (with his mates) is employed on board ship in making, repairing, or altering ...

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sail-netting
The fore-topmast staysail, main-topmast staysail, and main staysail are generally stowed in the nett...

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sheer-sail
A drift-sail. ...

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smoke-sail
A small sail hoisted against the fore-mast when a ship rides head to wind, to give the smoke of the ...

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sprit-sail
A sail formerly attached to a yard which hung under the bowsprit, and of importance in naval actions...

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square-sail
The flying sail, set on the fore-yard of a schooner, or the spread-yard of a cutter or sloop. ...

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steering-sail
An incorrect name for a studding-sail. ...

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storm-sail
A sail made of stout No. 1 canvas, of reduced dimensions, for use in a gale. ...

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strange sail
A vessel heaving in sight, of which the particulars are unknown. ...

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under sail
The state of a ship when she is in motion from the action of wind on her sails. ...

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water-sail
A save-all, or small sail, set occasionally under the lower studding-sail or driver-boom, in a fair ...

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wind-sail
A funnel of canvas employed to ventilate a ship by conveying a stream of fresh air down to the lower...

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Hook, Theodore Edward
(1788-1841) Dramatist and novelist, s. of James H., music-hall composer, was b. in London, and ed. ...

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Hook, Walter Farquhar
(1798-1875) Biographer, s. of James H., Dean of Worcester, b. at Worcester, and ed. at Winchester a...

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foot-hook-shrouds
See futtock-shrouds ...

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hanging hook-pots
Tin utensils fitted for hanging to the bars before the galley-grate. ...

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hook and butt
The scarphing or laying two ends of planks over each other. (See butt-and-butt and hook-scarph.) ...

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crowd sail, to
To carry an extraordinary press of canvas on a ship, as in pursuit of, or flight from, an enemy, &c....

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main-sail haul!
The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking. ...

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make sail, to
To increase the quantity of sail already set, either by letting out reefs, or by setting additional ...

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middling a sail
Arranging it for bending to the yard. ...

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out-sail, to
To sail faster than another ship, or to make a particular voyage with greater despatch. ...

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press of sail
As much sail as the state of the wind, &c., will permit a ship to carry. ...

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pricking a sail
The running a middle seam between the two seams which unite every cloth of a sail to the next adjoin...

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sprit-sail yard
A yard slung across the bowsprit, lashed to the knight-heads, and used to spread the guys of the jib...

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sprit-sail yarding
A cruelty in which some fishermen wreak vengeance on sharks, dog-fish, &c., that encroach on their b...

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square main-sail
See main-sail. ...

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square-sail boom
A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...

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studding-sail boom
A spar rigged out for the purpose of setting a studding-sail, and taking its name from the sail it b...

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studding-sail yard
The spar to which the head of the studding-sail is extended. ...

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top-sail haul!
or main-topsail haul! When the main-sail is not set, this is the order given to haul the after-yar...

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on one's own hook
A phrase much used in familiar language, denoting on one's own account; as, 'He is doing business on...

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hook of the decks
See breast-hooks. ...

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red sail-yard dockers
Buyers of stores stolen out of the royal yards and docks. ...

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bunt of a sail
The middle part of it, formed designedly into a bag or cavity, that the sail may gather more wind. I...

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depth of a sail
The extent of the square sails from the head-rope to the foot-rope, or the length of the after-leech...

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hullock of a sail
A small part lowered in a gale. ...

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lateen sail and yard
A long triangular sail, bent by its foremost leech to a lateen yard, which hoists obliquely to the m...

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point a sail, to
To affix points through the eyelet-holes of the reefs. (See points.) ...

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shoulder-of-mutton sail
A kind of triangular sail of peculiar form, used mostly in boats. It is very handy and safe, particu...

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skin of a sail
The outside part when a sail is furled. To furl in a clean skin, is the habit of a good seaman. ♦ ...

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sprit-sail sheet knot
May be crowned and walled, or double-walled, and is often used as a stopper-knot. ...

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by hook or by crook
One way or other; by any expedient.--Johnson. It can't be done by hook or crook, Unless your Highn...

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standing part of a hook
That part which is attached to a block, chain, or anything which is to heave the hook up, with a wei...

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goose-wings of a sail
The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee-clue are hauled up, and the weather-clue down. ...

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roll up a sail, to
To hand it quickly. ...

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hook and snivey, with nix the buffer
This rig consists in feeding a man and a dog for nothing, and is carried on thus: Three men, one of ...

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earing-cringle, at the head of a sail
In sail-making it is an eye spliced in the bolt-rope, to which the much smaller head-rope is attache...

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