Hook

Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers: [...]

A shop of all the qualities, that man Loues woman for, besides that hooke of Wiuing,

“What makes you so sure that nobody knows you've got a hook into him?” Ward asked.

He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.

Much of the Two in Twenty humor is insider stuff; this soap is clearly made for lesbians who have been around the city block, with a few road trips to Michigan. Gay men may love it as well, and others with a hook into contemporary urban dyke life.

If you're struggling to get a hook on the scale of it, that's the North Stand at Leicester Tigers, plus six Peter Crouches, or half a Clock Tower.

The hook of Good Boys, Hollywood's latest odyssey of comic adolescent mischief, is that the kids behaving badly are, for once, truly kids.

The song's hook snared me.

Guitarist Jade Puget and vocalist Davey Havok have distilled AFI’s strengths (a ferocious, post-hardcore rhythmic backbone; goth-tinctured, post-punky guitars; and Havok’s desperate, dramatic croon) into 14 taut, hook-driven songs.

We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.

In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem.

Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity.

Common diacritics in Slavonic language are the hook ˇ (as in haček – Czech for ‘hook’) and the stroke ´ (robić – Polish for ‘do/make’).

In Czech, palatalization is normally indicated by the symbol ˇ, called haček or “hook.”

2004, Keesing’s Record of World Events L:i–xii, page unknown In detailing the proposed shortening of the Czech Republic to Česko…the hook (hacek) erroneously appeared over the letter “e” instead of the “C”.

He threw a hook in the dirt.

However, for pins on the bowler's right, such as the 3, 6, 9, or 10, move more toward the center of the foul line if you bowl a straight ball or slightly to the left of the center of the foul line if you bowl a hook.

The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.

American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times.

I was talkin' to a couple of the 'hooks' (female prostitutes) I know.

He preceded me to Dartmoor, where I found his fame even more loudly trumpeted than ever, especially by Manchester “hooks” (pickpockets), who boast of being the rivals of the “Cocks,” or Londoners, in the art of obtaining other people's property without paying for it.

"Everybody's a tool over there. Everybody's a hook, except them four guys on the points of the compass. They are eight or ten strong over there." But all professional pickpockets, however expert or however clumsy, operate on the basis of the situation just outlined.

This maneuver involves a sharp turn, back into the hook of the wave.

Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

The utensil holder hooks onto the side of the dishrack.

He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.

No one seems to want anything but hooked mats now.

He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.

She's only here to try to hook a husband.

A free trial is a good way to hook customers.

If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.

He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.

I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.

People talk about so and so getting married and they always comment about the class or potential class status of the person this woman had "hooked." You know, "He comes from a working class background but he's studying to be a lawyer and she's going to be all set."

"Hey, Sara! Watch this hook shot!" he shouted as he hooked the ball right through the net—swish!

The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.

The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.

I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.

10 mins later, at the point where the road hooks sharp to the left, continue straight on through the wood along a mule track […]