Translation of hook (English-English)

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bill-hook: curved cutting instrument furnished with a handle. Used for topping vines
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

billhook: a cutting tool consisting of a blade with a hooked point fitted with a handle and used in pruning and similar work.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

breasthook: Inside timber or iron fitting bent to a V shape and fastened horizontally at the fore end of the ship between the decks to unite the bows and strengthen the forepart of the structure.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

G-hook: forged G-shaped hook to connect with a recessed link
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

hook: part of the telephone set on which the ear-piece is hung
Category: News-systems and communications

hook: the turned edge of the knife in a scraping machine
Category: Various industries and crafts

hook: bent,sharpened piece of steel wire usually with barb,for catching fish
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

hook: the crosse is a staff of wood, usually hirkory, the top being sharply bent to form a -- from the end of which a thong is drawn...
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

hook: a bent piece of metal joining the static line to the aircraft.
Category: Defense

hooke: law stating that,within the elastic range,the strain produced is proportional to the stress.Practically the limit of proportionality may differ from the limit of elasticity
Category: Iron and steel industries

hooked: physically dependent upon a drug, usually an opiate drug.
Category: Medicine

hooker: annonce d`un fabricant dans laquelle il indique les noms des détaillants chez qui on peut se procurer un article, un produit, etc.
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

hookup: diagram that shows graphically the assemblage of the circuits
Category: Transport

hookup: wiring used to connect various points in electronic assemblies
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

hookworm: a parasitic infection that may affect workers exposed to warm moist soil in which the larvae of the worm lives
Category: Medicine

on-hook: the condition of a telephone set which is idle
Category: News-systems and communications

S-Hook: S-shaped metal piece used in lifting operations
Category: Mechanical engineering

shook: a set of staves and heads for a cask ready to be put together and commonly bound together in a bundle for transport
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

shook: a small piece or set of pieces of sawn or sliced dimension stock for cooperage(hence slack shook and tight shook assemblies)or box manufacture
Category: Various industries and crafts

tenterhook: an opening and mixing machine,which delivers the material in a suitable state for carding.It has one ore two swifts traditionally of 30-to 40-in.diameter,which rotate at between 160 and 180 rev/min.Over the swifts are fitted two,three,or four sets of workers and strippers similar to those on a carding machine.If these are clothed with tenterhook teeth and are gear-driven,the workers precede the strippers.If,however,the strippers have leather wings and straight teeth and are running at high speed
Category: Various industries and crafts

unhook: a specified period of time that will be allowed to elapse in a system before a specified event is to take place,unless another specified event occurs first.In either case,the period is terminated when either event takes place
Category: News-systems and communications

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