| hook | take in marriage |
|---|---|
| hook | a wrench with a hook that fits over a nut or bolt head |
| hook | having an aquiline nose |
| hook | a pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water |
| hook | English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703) |
| hook | (physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced |
| hook | addicted to a drug |
| hook | curved down like an eagle's beak |
| hook | (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to hook the ball |
| hook | a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) |
| hook | a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets |
| hook | English theologian (1554-1600) |