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  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. 




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