hook

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer

   They took lessons to cure the hook caused by their terrible swing.

2. 2
   noun

   a sharp curve or crook

   a shape resembling a hook

3. 3
   verb

   secure with the foot

   hook the ball

4. 4
   verb

   catch with a hook

   hook a fish

5. 5
   verb

   hit with a hook

   I hooked my opponent badly.

6. 6
   noun

   A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

   "If I were a pirate and lost my hand, I would ask them to replace it with a computer mouse rather than a hook. I use a computer mouse all day, and I only use a hook three to five times a day."¶ -Emma Stone¶ On hooks

7. 7
   noun

   Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.

   Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers: [...]

8. 8
   noun

   A snare; a trap.

   A shop of all the qualities, that man Loues woman for, besides that hooke of Wiuing,

Etymology

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.