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Cod catcher?
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fishhook
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A fishhook is a device for catching fish. Fishhook or fish hook may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fishhook \Fish"hook`\, n. A hook for catching fish. (Naut.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked. --Dana.
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 2030 Housing Units (2000): 730 Land area (2000): 88.126738 sq. miles (228.247193 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.288106 sq. miles (0.746190 sq. km) Total area (2000): 88.414844 sq. miles (228.993383 sq. km) FIPS code: 25550 Located within: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing 2 (context slang English) A jack (the playing card)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sharp barbed hook for catching fish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The Union lines were taking the shape of a fishhook , one three miles long.
Usage examples of fishhook.
I peeked into my survival vest as Phil chatted with one of the crew chiefs, and began to pull out all sorts of interesting items bullets, fishhooks, flashlights, strobe lights, tracers, whistles, and signaling mirrors.
For Fishhook had been one of the greatest, one of the giddiest, one of the gladdest things that had ever happened to the human race.
Bolts of gingham and calico, plowpoints, bottles of ink, fiddle strings and fishhooks, packets of steel needles, gunpowder and flints, bar lead and bullet molds, axeheads, blank books and wool blankets, laudanum and coffee beans, pistols and palm-leaf hats and horse fleams.
Behind it were racks with the goods that held his eye: steel knives, spearheads, axes, hatchets, fishhooks and line, nets with lead sinkers, metal traps.
Indian, had given him meats, nuts, vegetables to eat, leather and feathers for his clothing, poles for his tepees, bones for his dishes, the ribs of field mice for his fishhooks, hemp for his rope, and skins for his canoes.
These other cases contain more fishhooks, needles and thread, safety-pins, aspirins, water purifying tablets, things like that.
Most other islanders produced a diverse array of fishhooks, adzes, jewelry, and other objects.
The most important transmissions were of New Guinea shell fishhooks, which spread far into Australia, and of New Guinea outrigger canoes, which spread down the Cape York Peninsula.
As a result, no New Guinea trait except shell fishhooks spread far into Australia.
The trap closes, a net sewn with fishhooks, and Second Son is tumbled into it.
Struggling in a net woven of ropes sewn with fishhooks is like struggling against fate: Resistance only sinks the barbs in more deeply.
We would need a thousand fishhooks and two thousand lengths of sennit.
Fish-lines of sennit, fishhooks of pearl, nets and spears for sharks, all were in order.
Across his forehead, an inch below the hairline, three large fishhooks pierced his flesh.
The fishhooks in the forehead, however, had not been intended as merely a game move.