单词 | click-hook |
释义 | click-hookn. Now rare. A large barbed hook which can be fixed to a pole or fastened to a rope, used for catching or landing fish, or catching or dragging other animals. Cf. cleek n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > prongs or hooks for landing fish grab-hook1608 gaff1656 weir-hook1688 pew1765 click-hookc1810 picaroon1837 gaff-hook1844 pew-gaffa1884 fish-gaff1887 snigger1901 c1810 A. Mackintosh Driffield Angler i. 13 The Salmon are inclosed as in a reservoir, from whence it is easy to take them with a click-hook. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 13 Eskimo Click-hook for taking fish. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Mar. 213/2 The ‘clickhook’ to spear fish. 1956 W. M. Williams Sociol. Eng. Village vi. 135 A ‘click-hook’, a steel instrument very similar to a fisherman's gaff, which is used to drag out a fox that has gone to earth. 1973 Country Life 6 Sept. 613/2 Isaac was along this beck, near here, standin' on a bit o' wet rock wi' a click-hook. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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