HOOK, n.
1. A piece of iron or other metal bent into a curve for catching, holding and sustaining any thing as a hook for catching fish a teeter-hook a chimney-hook a pot-hook, &c.
2. A snare a trap.
3. A curving instrument for cutting grass or grain a sickle an instrument for cutting or lopping.
4. That part of a hinge which is fixed or inserted in a post. Whence the phrase, to be off the hooks, to be unhinged, to be disturbed or disordered.
5. A forked timber in a ship, placed on the keel.
6. A catch an advantage. Vulgar.
7. In husbandry, a field sown two years running. Local.
By hook and by crook, one way or other by any means, direct or indirect.
HOOK, To catch with a hook as, to hook a fish.
1. To seize and draw, as with a hook.
2. To fasten with a hook.
3. To entrap to ensnare.
4. To draw by force or artifice.
To hook on, to apply a hook.
HOOK, To bend to be curving.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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