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fishhook

[ fish-hook ]

noun

  1. a hook used in fishing.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fishhook1

First recorded in 1350–1400, fishhook is from the Middle English word fischhook. See fish, hook 1
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"That's what happened here. We had all sort of noticed this fishhook squiggle on the rock. It was pretty prominent because it was really, really deep."

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I look down at the words I’ve written, feeling the yearning pull of them, like a fishhook in my stomach.

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Billowing white clouds drifted off burnt-brown hills bristling with branched and twisted Joshua trees and fishhook cactus.

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“Cobain chose the image depicting Spencer — like a sex worker — grabbing for a dollar bill that is positioned dangling from a fishhook in front of his nude body,” the suit alleges.

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The two cultures adapted English earrings into fishhooks and gun barrels into sharp-ended tubes to tap tar from trees.

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