3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hook \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
hooked
adj 1: curved down like an eagle's beak [syn: {aquiline}]
2: addicted to a drug [syn: {dependent}, {dependant}, {drug-addicted},
{strung-out}]
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