fishhook
Americannoun
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fishhooks
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
He, on the other hand, was swarthy, big fishhook of a nose, two inches shorter than she.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2018
Jake Fromm, Georgia’s sophomore quarterback, broke his non-throwing hand in a freak boating accident this offseason — this after previously landing in the ER with a fishhook stuck in his leg.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2018
But I swear she can make a decent fishhook out of anything—a thorn, a wishbone, an earring.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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
She has found Neanderthal tools made of river cobbles, bone fishhooks, and human remains thousands of years old.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 30, 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
A war helmet, fishhooks, a war drum and flag from the Kingdom of Hawaii are among the other artifacts being sold.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 7, 2017
Shell fishhooks appeared within the last thousand years.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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