单词 | fish-hook |
释义 | fish-hookn. 1. A barbed hook used for catching fish. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387 |
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