Crossword clues for fishhook
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing 2 (context slang English) A jack (the playing card)
WordNet
n. a sharp barbed hook for catching fish
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Wikipedia
A fishhook is a device for catching fish. Fishhook or fish hook may also refer to:
The Fishhook was the name given to a salient of Kampong Cham Province, southeast Cambodia that protrudes into Bình Long and Tây Ninh provinces, Vietnam, approximately 80 km northwest of Saigon. The area consisted of generally flat plains adjacent to Mimot northeast through roughly rolling plains; and east to the roughly dissected hills and low mountains near O'Rang. Multi-canopied, dense undergrowth forest was the dominant natural vegetation throughout the area. Rubber plantations were found primarily in the western section
During the Vietnam War the Fishhook was a base and rest area for the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong and one of the terminus points of the Ho Chi Minh trail/ Sihanouk Trail. The NVA established Base Areas 352 and 353 in the Fishhook and elements of the NVA 7th Division were also based there. US Intelligence agencies believed that the Central Office for South Vietnam or COSVN, the NVA’s political and military headquarters was also located within the Fishhook
On 18 March 1969, the Fishhook was the target of Operation Breakfast, a raid by 48 B-52 Stratofortress bombers, in the first phase of the secret bombing of Cambodia.
On 24 April 1969, a further B-52 raid took place on the suspected location of COSVN. A platoon from MACV-SOG was inserted to conduct a post-strike intelligence-gathering raid. The 24-man MACV-SOG team came under fire as soon as it was inserted and 14 men were eventually evacuated some 8 hours later. Two Americans and 5 Montagnards were killed, while one American, MSGT Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver was listed as MIA, later changed to presumed dead.
On 1 May 1970, the Fishhook was attacked as part of the Cambodian Incursion. The 3d ARVN Airborne Brigade air assaulted into the area north of the Fishhook to seal off escape routes and begin operations to the south. Simultaneously, Taskforce Shoemaker comprising the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division on the west and the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment on the south and east attacked north across the Cambodian Border. The 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry conducted screening operations in the task force area of operations while elements of the 9th ARVN Regiment and the 1st ARVN Armored Cavalry Regiment screened to the east in Binh Long Province adjacent to the Fishhook. All elements then conducted search and interdiction operations to locate and exploit NVA lines of communication and cache sites. The attack did not discover COSVN, but instead found “The City”, a vast logistics area covering 3 square km, comprising 182 storage bunkers containing 1282 individual weapons, 202 crew-served weapons, 30 tons of rice and large amounts of ammunition and explosives. Documents indicated that the City was the supply base for the NVA 7th Division.
Image: Map Cambodian Incursion May 70 from USMA.jpg |Map of the Cambodian Incursion, showing the Fishhook to the upper left
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.