A length of metal, or piece of wood or other material, bent back, or fashioned with a sharp angle, often forming a part of something, as a pole…

A clasp, a hook.

A large hook or crook for catching hold of and pulling something; or for hanging articles on, from a rafter, or the like. Cleeks are used by…

cleek-staff, cleek-shank, etc.

An iron bar with the end bent to a hook; a grappling-iron; = cramp-iron, n. 1. Obsolete exc. dialect.

A rod, stick, or chain, with a hook at the end.

= sense 1.

A piece of iron bent in the form of a hook; a grappling-iron; = crampon, n. 1; sometimes also used to render Latin falx. Obsolete.

An iron hook. Obsolete. rare.

= cramp-iron, n.

(a) = bench holdfast n.; (b) a board with stops fitted at each end on opposite faces, used on a carpenter's bench to secure a workpiece.

A bar of iron or other metal bent in the form of a hook, to serve as a grapple or clutch; a grappling-iron; also = cramp, n.2 2.

†(a) a grappling-hook (obsolete); (b) a hook-shaped holdfast for fastening wire, piping, etc. to a wall.

A hook or hooked implement used in the dressing (in various senses) of a material or object.

= snap-hook, n. 2.

An iron bar with a bent prong, used to join parts of machinery, secure or hoist a log, etc.; = dog, n.1 19a. Cf. dog, n.1 19a. Now rare.

English regional (north midlands and northern), Scottish, and Irish English (northern). A hook; = cleek, n. 1a. Cf. click-hook, n.

He who or that which clips or clasps; in plural = clip-hook n. at clip, n.1 compounds 2.

A hook employed in securing and hoisting or dragging ice, esp. for storage. Now chiefly historical.

A hooked stick used for extracting witchetty grubs (cf. sense 2) from holes in trees. Also witchetty-hook. Now rare.

(see quots.).

(See quot. 1875.)

a hook closing with a clip or spring (cf. clipper, n.1 3, clevis, n.).

Nautical. In full pelican hook. A hinged hook shaped like a pelican's bill, held in place by a ring or link around the narrow end which can be…