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Hooked
Hook Hook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooking.] 1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout. Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. --W. Collins. 2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore. 3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.] To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.
Hooked
Hooked Hooked, a. 1. Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird. 2. Provided with a hook or hooks. ``The hooked chariot.' --Milton.
Hookedness
Hookedness Hook"ed*ness, n. The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
hookey
Hooky Hook"y, n. [Written also hookey.] [Cf. Hook, v. t., 3.] A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to run away, to play truant. This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and ``hooky,' and marbles, was all moonshine. --F. Hopkinson Smith.
hookey
Hockey Hock"ey, n. [From Hook, n.] 1. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals. 2. The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and hawkey.]
Hookey
Hookey Hook"ey, n. See Hockey.
Unhooked
Unhooked Un*hooked", a. Without nooks and corners; guileless. [Obs.] ``Unnooked simplicity.' --Marston.

Meaning of Hooke from wikipedia

- Hooke may refer to: Hooke, Dorset, England River Hooke, nearby watercourse Hooke Court, former manor house at Hooke Hooke Park, Woodland to south west...
- Robert Hooke FRS (/hʊk/; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath, active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist...
- In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force (F) needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance (x) scales linearly...
- Thomas Hooke may refer to: Thomas Hooke (mayor) (died 1670), Mayor of Dublin Sir Thomas Hooke of the Hooke baronets Thomas Hook (1860–1927), Ontario real...
- knowledge of various clever mechanisms, including gimbals Hooke joint or Hooke's joint, after Robert Hooke, a polymath of the 17th century who contributed to...
- John Hooke may refer to: John Hooke (academic), 13th-century Chancellor of the University of Cambridge John Hooke (politician) (c. 1605 – 1685), Member...
- / 50.8019°N 2.6663°W / 50.8019; -2.6663 Hooke Court is a 17th-century manor house in the parish of Hooke in Dorset, England. It is a Grade II* listed...
- Peerage of Ireland (as Baron Hooke of Hooke Castle, cr. 1708). Born at Corballis in County Meath, he was the third son of John Hooke, of Drogheda and grandson...
- November 1679, Hooke began an exchange of letters with Newton, of which the full text is now published. Hooke told Newton that Hooke had been appointed...
- Hooke is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of the town of Bridport...