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noun
Fishhook  n.  
1.
A hook for catching fish.
2.
(Naut.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.





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"Fishhook" Quotes from Famous Books



... She likes it. Rose is fond of me, and I'm very good to her when I have time," continued Jamie, calmly explaining. "I let her cut out a fishhook, when it caught in my leg, with a sharp penknife, and you'd better believe it hurt, but I never squirmed a bit, and she said I was a brave boy. And then, one day I got left on my desert island out in ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... fishhook in my leg today. me and Fatty Melcher was a fishing when we got our lines tangled, i hollered first cut, but i dident have enny nife and Fatty woodent let me have his nife. So we got jerking our lines kinder mad like and all of ...
— The Real Diary of a Real Boy • Henry A. Shute
... got turned 'round," he replied. "I didn't have any grub, and I didn't have a pistol, or a fishhook, or any way to get grub, and I didn't have a compass, and I ...
— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace


Words linked to "Fishhook" :   fishing rig, fishing gear, tackle, rig, hook, fishing tackle


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