fish-hook

noun

1. a sharp hook used in angling, esp one with a barb
2. logic a symbol (∋) for entailment

Example Sentences

He came very near being blown or shaken from the yard several times, but he was a true sailor, every finger a fish-hook.

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Now it so happened that Hoori had lost his brother's fish-hook.

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Twouldnt sprise me, Tumm, says he, if a man failed in love with a fish-hook.

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This is shaped somewhat like a fish hook, the barb being the harbor, the point being Point Pinos, the southern headland.

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He claimed to have caught mink with an ordinary fish hook, baited, and attached to a piece of wire.

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