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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"That's what happened here. We had all sort of noticed this fishhook squiggle on the rock. It was pretty prominent because it was really, really deep."
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
It’s such a great concept: a baby underwater, naked, defenceless, can’t breathe, but still going after the dollar on a fishhook.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2019
He, on the other hand, was swarthy, big fishhook of a nose, two inches shorter than she.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2018
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
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
The most important transmissions were of New Guinea shell fishhooks, which spread far into Australia, and of New Guinea outrigger canoes, which spread down the Cape York Peninsula.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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