hook

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A curved piece of metal or plastic used to hang, hold, or catch things.

   Hang your coat on the hook by the door.

2. 2
   verb

   To catch or fasten something with a hook.

   He hooked a large fish on his first cast.

3. 3
   noun

   A sharp curve or bend in the shape of a hook.

   The road makes a sudden hook to the left at the bridge.

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc (“angle, point, hook”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Cognates Cognate with Scots huke, huik (“hook”), West Frisian and Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk, German Hook (“small cluster of farms”), Faroese høkja (“crutch”), Icelandic hækja (“crutch”), Norn hek (“crutch”), Finnish kuokka (“hoe, mattock”). Related to hake.

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