fishhook
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of fishhook
First recorded in 1350–1400, fishhook is from the Middle English word fischhook. See fish, hook 1
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While the team didn't set out to find an early ecdysozoan during their 2018 excavation, they were drawn to a mysterious worm-like impression that they dubbed "fishhook."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024
Billowing white clouds drifted off burnt-brown hills bristling with branched and twisted Joshua trees and fishhook cactus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
Mr. Weddle paid Mr. Elden’s parents $200 for the picture, which was later altered to show the baby chasing a dollar, dangling from a fishhook.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
“So Kurt came up with the idea of adding a fishhook to make it more menacing,” Fisher said for the Milanote article, which Elden cites in his lawsuit.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
Now she reached into the red cup and pulled out a little fishhook.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
They also perfected a sophisticated woodcarving technique for producing art, created special bone and wood fishhooks, and used certain types of tree bark to create cloth and baskets.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The two cultures adapted English earrings into fishhooks and gun barrels into sharp-ended tubes to tap tar from trees.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 22, 2020
The piece was stunning, a seascape textured by thousands of rusty metal fishhooks Capote had planted on an oil surface.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2018
Archaeologists have found the world's oldest fishhooks in a cave on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2016
“Where you get all these fishhooks from?” he asked first, hovering over Ernie, who kept bumping at Genie’s leg, trying to get him to move back.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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