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单词 fish-hook
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fish-hookn.

Brit. /ˈfɪʃhʊk/, U.S. /ˈfɪʃˌ(h)ʊk/
Etymology: < fish n.1, fish v.1 + hook n.1
1. A barbed hook used for catching fish.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun]
angleeOE
hookc950
angle-hooka1382
fish-hooka1387
preen1469
angling hook1549
fishing-hook1725
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 295 [A] goldene fisch~hook.
1482 York Myst. Introd. 40 Those that makes pynnes..or maketh ffisshe-hukes.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 201v Crooked like a fysshehooke.
1611 Bible (King James) Amos iv. 2.
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 12 Aptness to catch hold and entangle, like..fish-hooks.
1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 342 The manufacture of English fish-hooks is computed at one-sixth that of needles.
2. Nautical. An iron hook forming part of the tackle used to raise the anchor to the gunwale of a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > for raising flukes to gunwale
fish-hook1627
fish1825
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 30 Hitch the fish-hooke to the Anchors flooke.
1805 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. III. 206 In fishing the anchor, the fish-hook gave way.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 56 The fish tackle consists of two double blocks, and one single block; the lower one is fitted with a fishhook.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as fish-hook maker.
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1696 London Gaz. No. 3206/4 Tim. Kirby, the Son of Charles Kirby, Fish-hook Maker.
C2.
fish-hook cactus n. U.S. any of several cacti with hooked spines.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > other cacti
hedgehog thistle1597
Opuntia1601
mescal1709
Barbados gooseberry1756
night-flowering cereus1789
vygebosch1795
night-blooming cereus1799
rhipsalis1819
pigface1830
window plant1838
old man cactus1845
cholla1846
fish-hook cactus1846
spleenwort1846
epiphyllum1858
old man's head1858
rainbow cactus1860
green snake1864
torchwood1866
queen of the night1870
vingerpol1875
nipple cactus1876
niggerhead1877
rat's tail cactus1878
rat-tail cactus1878
Christmas cactus1880
barrel cactus1881
peyote1885
mistletoe cactus1889
schlumbergera1898
pincushion1940
opuntioid1944
1846 in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (30th Congress, 1st Sess.) (1848) IV. No. 41. 612 The fish-hook cactus is found here [i.e. in California].
1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights i. xiii. 196 Denton ran across some fishhook cactus, which we cut up and chewed.
1947 Southern Sierran (Los Angeles) May 4/2 Rare and very beautiful, the Mohave Fishhook or Pineapple Cactus, Echinocactus Polyancistrus, with clustered iridescent magenta-pink blossoms.
fish-hook wire n. a wire consisting of twisted strands, with a piece of wire resembling a fish-hook inserted at intervals; also fish-hooked wire.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > wire fence > fencing-wire
barbed wire1874
barbwire1874
wire1876
fencing-wire1878
fish-hook wire1892
bob-wire1929
razor ribbon1975
1892 Star 20 Sept. 4/3 All knowledge of the use of this fishhook wire was disclaimed by the defendants..This fishhooked wire is manufactured, and..finds a market.
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