How to use fishhook in a sentence
He came very near being blown or shaken from the yard several times, but he was a true sailor, every finger a fish-hook.
Now it so happened that Hoori had lost his brother's fish-hook.
Myths & Legends of Japan | F. Hadland (Frederick Hadland) DavisTwouldnt sprise me, Tumm, says he, if a man failed in love with a fish-hook.
Every Man for Himself | Norman DuncanThis is shaped somewhat like a fish hook, the barb being the harbor, the point being Point Pinos, the southern headland.
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete | William T. ShermanHe claimed to have caught mink with an ordinary fish hook, baited, and attached to a piece of wire.
Mink Trapping | A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
British Dictionary definitions for fish-hook
a sharp hook used in angling, esp one with a barb
logic a symbol (∋) for entailment
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