Hook

Definition: Hook

Hook

Noun

1. A catch for locking a door.

2. A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook.

3. Anything that serves as an enticement.

4. A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something.

5. A curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something.

6. A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he tooks lessons to cure his hooking".

7. A short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent.

8. A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket.

Verb

1. Fasten with a hook.

2. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.

3. Interlock.

4. In golf: hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left.

5. Take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!".

6. Make off with belongings of others.

7. Hit with a hock; in boxing.

8. Catch with a hook; "hook a fish".

9. To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, esp. a narcotic drug).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hook" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Hook \Hook\, noun. [Old English hok, Anglo-Saxon h[=o]c; compare to Dutch haak, German hake, haken, Old High German h[=a]ko, h[=a]go, h[=a]ggo, Icelandic haki, Swedish hake, Danish hage. Compare to Arquebuse, Hagbut, Hake, Hatcha half door, Heckle.]. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hook

Connection

Pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl; terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post.

Curvature

Curvature, curvity, curvation; incurvature, incurvity; incurvation; bend; flexure, flexion, flection; conflexure; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection, deflexion; inflection, inflexion; concameration; arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity, recurvation; sinuosity.

Deception

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Impulse

Hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; (weapon); ax; (sharp).

Instrument

Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel.

Instrumentality

Per fas et nefas, by fair means or foul; somehow, somehow or other; by hook or by crook.

Insulation, Fire extinction

Extincteur; fire annihilator; amianth, amianthus; earth-flax, mountain-flax; asbestos; fireman, fire fighter, fire eater, fire department, fire brigade, engine company; pumper, fire truck, hook and ladder, aerial ladder, bucket; fire hose, fire hydrant.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Motive

Tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook.

Pendency

Suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append.

Eg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening; spar, horse.

Retention

Fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum; bond; (vinculum).

Taking

Verb: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.

Willingness

Swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; gorge the hook; have no scruple of, make no scruple of; make no bones of; jump at, catch at; meet halfway; volunteer.

Crosswords: Hook

You were pretty good with that hook. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

Have to fly, have to fight, have to crow, have to save Maggie, have to save Jack, Hook is back (Hook; writing credit: James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. Based on the play 'Peter Pan' by J.M. Barrie.)

Normally I go out with girls who talk so much you could hook them up to a wind turbine and they could power a small New Hampshire town (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz)

Too bad Hook is taken, eh (Inspector Gadget; writing credit: Andy Heyward; Jean Chalopin)

An old maid with a great right hook, you bastard (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein)

Because the hook brings you back (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

We goin' hook it up probably talk on the phone (Are You That Somebody; performing artist: Aaliyah)

HOOK 2 times (When Can I See You; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface)

Tell you why we can't hook up (You Gets No Love; performing artist: Faith Evans)

Hook me up a new revolution (Learn To Fly; performing artist: Foo Fighters)

Line & Sinker Hook (1969)

Sling Your Hook (1969)

The Hook (1963)

Line and Stinker Hook (1958)

Trooper Hook (1957)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Rug Hook Book: Techniques, Projects and Patterns for This Easy, Traditional Craft (reference)

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Periodicals

• Hook (reference)

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Music

• I Got the Hook Up [CD-SINGLE] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• I Got The Hook Up [Edited Version] [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Hook, Slide & Sinker (reference)

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High Tech

• Hook (reference)

• Home Theatre Hook Up Kit 100 (reference)

• Soundtube Surefit Headset Tops Ear Hook (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Mirka 25-625-080 6" 8 Hole Dustless Hook and Loop 80 Grit (For Bosch 1370DVS and Fein's MSF636-1) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

H.D. Pratt and Robert Walsh inspect bromeliad, potential mosquito breeding site, Red Hook, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Credit: CDC.

Sandy Hook Bar, New York Harbor entrance Surveyed under the direction of Lt. Cmdg. Thomas R. Gedney, 1835 Hydrographic Survey H-53 This survey helped publicize survey efforts by finding a new channel This channel made it easier and cheaper to enter and leave New York Harbor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Nautical chart of Cape Sable to Sandy Hook, 1864. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Using live bait to bait the hook for tuna fishing with pole and line fishing. Credit: Fisheries.

Skipjack tuna caught with a one-pole rig with a barbless hook. Credit: Fisheries.

Scott Gudes uses a long handled boat hook to remove monofilament from the upper branches of mangroves where birds roost and may become entangled. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Wave action forming a hook at a new cut through Washburn Island following passage of Hurricane Bob on August 19. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Hook Echo - often a precursor of tornadic activity. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Figure 6. Brooke sounder, invented by Midshipman John M. Brooke, USN, at the instigation of Matthew Fontaine Maury of the United States Naval Observatory in 1852. This was the first sounding device to abandon its lead at the bottom and return with a sample. Initially, it was built with two hooks for release and malfunctioned but was rebuilt with a single hook and used successfully in 1853. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Senior Survey Tech Paul McAnally secures the bow hook on RA-1 prior to hoisting boat out of water. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society; and the principal use of that power is, to give laws unto all that are under it, which laws in such cases we must obey, unless there be reason shewed which may necessarily inforce, that the law of reason, or of God, doth enjoin the contrary, Hook. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

One of the guard, who had a hook on the end of his club, from time to time made a semblance of stirring up this heap of human ordure

I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason I twisted three of the iron bars together, binding the extremities into a hook.

Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Presently, low cloth-covered panels are used in angular configurations, incorporating sound dampening floors and ceiling, flat surfaces that hook onto the panels and mobile filing cabinets. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hook": aircraft arresting hook ♦ aircraft arresting hook wire ♦ arrester hook ♦ arresting hook ♦ bait a hook ♦ bait the hook ♦ bait with a silver hook ♦ belt hook ♦ Bid hook ♦ bill hook ♦ boat hook ♦ Boot hook ♦ button hook ♦ by hook or by crook ♦ by hook or crook ♦ Can hook ♦ cant hook ♦ Cat hook ♦ Chain hook ♦ Check hook ♦ Chimney hook ♦ cleat hook ♦ clip hook ♦ Clove hook ♦ coat hook ♦ cranging hook ♦ crochet hook ♦ cup hook ♦ Deck hook ♦ Draught hook ♦ Eccentric hook ♦ fire hook ♦ fish hook ♦ floating hook ♦ Fly hook ♦ Forelock hook ♦ Gate hook ♦ get off the hook ♦ Gorge hook ♦ grappling hook ♦ Grub hook ♦ hook a husband ♦ hook and eye ♦ hook and hinge ♦ hook and ladder ♦ hook and ladder truck ♦ Hook bill ♦ hook bones ♦ hook down one's nose at ♦ hook in ♦ hook it ♦ hook ladder ♦ hook line and sinker ♦ Hook motion ♦ hook nose ♦ hook on ♦ hook operation ♦ hook or gab ♦ hook out ♦ hook shaped ♦ hook shot ♦ hook spanner ♦ Hook squid ♦ hook tender ♦ hook to the chin ♦ hook transporting device ♦ hook up ♦ hook up with ♦ hook wrench ♦ India Hook ♦ Jacquard hook ♦ Junk hook ♦ Kranging hook ♦ lifting hook ♦ Marcus Hook ♦ match hook ♦ meat hook ♦ mousing hook ♦ off the hook ♦ on one's own hook ♦ on the hook ♦ picture hook ♦ point of a hook ♦ pole hook ♦ pruning hook ♦ reap hook ♦ reaping hook ♦ Red Hook ♦ sail hook ♦ Sandy Hook ♦ shave hook ♦ side hook ♦ sling one's hook ♦ small hook ♦ spoon hook ♦ spring hook ♦ swamp hook ♦ swap hook ♦ switch hook plunger ♦ swivel hook ♦ tail hook. Additional references.

Beginning with "hook": hook-a-duck, hook-and-ladder company, hook-and-ladder truck, Hook-billed, Hook-billed marlin, hook-cum-uppercut, hook-ended, hook-free, hook-handed, hook-length, hook-like, hook-nose, hook-nosed, hook-shaped, hook-tender, hook-up, hook-ups, hook-worm.

Ending with "hook": boat-hook, fish-hook, Harwich-hook, left-hook, reap-hook, swap-hook, Swift-hook.

Afrikaans

angel (prickle, sting). (various references)

Albanian

kap me gremç, bën dredhë, bashkohem (affiliate, aggregate, band together, coalesce, inosculate, interflow, join, league, link up, merge, mix, rejoin, reunite, stick together, unite), drapër (reaping hook, sickle), dredhë (circumvolution, coil, contortion, convolution, Crimp, helix, kink, meanders, sinuosity, spiral, tendril, volute, whorl, winding), fiksohem, goditje e shpejtë, grackë (booby trap, cobweb, deadfall, decoy, gin, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, rat-trap, snare, springe, trap), gremç (boat hook, catch, clothes peg, crotchet, gaff, holdfast, pothook), grep (chela, click, fish rod, fishing rod, key, needle, tenterhook, tenterhooks), i jap një goditje të shkurtër, ia punoj me dredhi, çengel (crampon, pothook), kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), vjedh (cop, Frisk, lift, mooch, nobble, peculate, pilfer, pinch, prig, purloin, Rob, salvage, scrounge, snitch, steal, take away, thieve, walk off with), kap peshk me grep, kapje (apprehension, arrest, attachment, catch, catchment, clasp, clutch, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hitch, hold, holding, hug, interception, jaw, prehension, purchase, recapture, seizing, snatch, uptake), kthesë rruge, kurth (corral, deadfall, decoy, gin, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, plant, rat-trap, snare, springe, trap, wile), mbërthej (brace, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, corner, do up, enchain, fasten, grip, hold, hook up, make fast, nab, paw, peg, seize, snatch), mbërthim (brace, fastening, grapple, grappling iron, grasp, grip, seizing), mbajtëse (abutment, brace, bracket, cleat, hold, holder, holdfast, keeper, Mount, pendant, rack, retainer, stand, standard, support, supporter, tenter), përkulem (bend, bend over, bow, bow down, cant, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, incurve, lean, sag, stoop), shtrëngohem (tighten), togëz (link), var (dangle, drape, hang, hang up, rope, string up, suspend), kanxhë (coupling, crampon, drag, gaff, grab, grapnel, grapple, grappling iron, Peavey, Peavy, peg, pothook). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلاب (clamp, dog, grab, grapnel, grapple), ‏منجل (bill, billhook, machete, pruning scissors, scythe, sickle), ‏معلاق (bolt), ‏تكلب, ‏سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏عقف (hook up), ‏عقاف, ‏صنارة صيد (rod), ‏صاد (bag, land, repellent), ‏إنعقف (crook), ‏شرك (booby trap, catch, cobwebby, decoy, entanglement, gin, let smb. into, mantrap, morass, net, paneling, pitfall, polytheism, snare, trammel, trap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

крада на дребно (crib, sneak), закачам (append, bangle, catch, clasp, dangle, graze, hang, hang out, hang up, hitch, jive, jolly, pin on, pin up, put up, rib, ride, roast, rough-house, tease, tooth, twit), закопчавам (buckle, pin on), нос (boko, bow, conk, foreland, head, headland, hoe, naze, nose, nozzle, pecker, point, promontory, prow, smeller, stem, tongue), окачвам (hang, suspend), остра извивка, въдица (fishhook, shift), канджа (drag), завой (bend, crook, curve, elbow, flexure, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, turn, turning, wind, winding), крив нож, сърп (reaping hook, sickle), кукичка, кука (clevis, crook, gab, grapple, holdfast), къс удар със свит лакът, хващам (capture, catch, clamp, find out, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hunt down, land, nail, nip, nobble, pick up, pot, prey upon, run down, seize, snag, strike, take, take effect, take up, track down), хващам под ръка, свивам пръсти, свивам във вид на кука, удрям отстрани със свит лакът, кос удар (chop). (various references)

Chinese 

鉤子 , 鉤 (entice), 勾子 (Hooks), 勾 (affair, to cancel, to delineate, to reach for). (various references)

Czech

hák. (various references)

Danish

medekrog. (various references)

Dutch

vishaak (fish hook), spang (buckle, clasp), slot (castle, clasp, conclusion, end, ending, lock, terminate), haakje (brace, bracket, clamp, clasp, parenthesis, staple), haak (buckle, catch, cradle, fastener, fish hook, folding stirrup, latch, metal lace, rest, staple). (various references)

Esperanto

hoko, hoka, kroĉilo, kroĉi, fiŝhoko, agrafo (clasp). (various references)

Faeroese

hekti (clasp), ongul, krókur, krøkja. (various references)

Farsi 

چنگک (Gaff, Peg, Prong, Rake, Tach, Uncus), کج کردن (Bend, Contort, Crook, Deflect, Distort, Incline, Inflect, List, Slant, Strain, Tilt, Top), قلاب (Buckle, Clasp, Crampon, Creel, Frog, Grapple, Hank, Link, Pennant, Tach, Uncus), گیراوردن (Grasp), گرفتارکردن (Enmesh, Entangle, Enwrap, Implicate, Incriminate, Involve, Tangle), تله (Grin, Noose, Pitfall, Quicksand, Snare, Snarl, Train, Trepanation), ضربه (Brunt, Hack, Hew, Impact, Lash, Pelt, Sock, Strike, Stroke, Thud, Whop), ربودن (Abduct, Abstract, Bag, Betake, Get, Grab, Purloin, Ravish, Reave, Rob, Snatch, Steal, Usurp), بشکل قلاب دراوردن , بدام انداختن (Decoy, Ensnare, Entrap, Inveigle, Nail, Snare, Trap, Trepanation). (various references)

Finnish

koukku (hanger), haka (bolt, clasp, pasture paddock). (various references)

French

crochet (crochet hook, pronged hoe), agrafe, hameçon (fish hook), accrocher (hook on). (various references)

Frisian

hoek (region). (various references)

German

haken (belaying pin, catch, check, crotchet, crotchets, crux, cruxes, grappling iron, hash, hash up, hitch, hooks, peg, snag, stick, trip up), anhaken (hitch on, hook on, tick off). (various references)

Greek 

άγκιστρο (fishhook, gaff), γάντζος (folding stirrup, grapnel, latch), αγκίστρι (fish hook). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללכוד (capture, catch, entrap, hunt down, track down, trap), לתפוס באנקול, וו (hasp, peg, pin), קולב (hanger, nog, peg), קרס (clasp, rack, stud), אונקל (tenterhook), חוח (cleft, fissure, ring), אנקול (grappling iron, uncus), חח (nose ring, swivel), כולב, רתק, צנורה (knitting needle). (various references)

Hungarian

kampó (clasp, clench, crook, crotchet, dog, hanger, loop), horog (clench, crotchet, fish hook, fish-hook, gaff, grapple, grappling iron, hanger, hitch). (various references)

Icelandic

krókur. (various references)

Indonesian

sangkutan (connection, involvement, peg, relation), pengait (crook, linking), menggaet (rake in, snatch), kaitan (connection, crook, link), cantelan (clasp, clip). (various references)

Italian

amo (fishhook), gancio (catch, clasp, clip, crook, crotchet, fastener, fastening, hanger), arpione (harpoon, hinge). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鉤針 (crochet needle), 鈎 (quotation mark), ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, knob, knock, knockdown, knocker, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, nonchalant, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, nonstop, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgie, notation, notch, notchback, notch-filter, nova, Nova Scotia, novel, novelty, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer), フタル酸エステル (hooker, phthalate ester), ホスホン酸 (electric carpet, hockey, hook and eye, hopper, hot, hot balloon, hot corner, hot curler, hot dog, hot jazz, hot laboratory, hot line, hot money, hot news, hot potato, hot rod, hot spot, hot stand-by, hot war, hotcakes, hot-key, hotpants, hotplate, Hottentot, pancakes, paper fastener, phosphonic acid, stapler). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ハーケン , フック , ホック (hook and eye), かぎばり (crochet needle), かぎ (key, quotation mark). (various references)

Korean 

걸이 (hanger, Hooks). (various references)

Manx

rinn (foreland, point of a weapon, ridge, rinn), gob (apex, beak, bow, bow of ship, headland, jet, jut, lip of jug, mouth, muzzle, nib, nose, nosepiece, pee of anchor, point, prominence, promontory, spit, spout), dooan (fishhook), croagane (crook, gaff), cor-vuilley (miss). (various references)

Norwegian

hekte (clasp), hake (chin), krok, knagg. (various references)

Papiamen

hanzué, anzué. (various references)

Pig Latin

ookhay.(various references)

Portuguese

gancho (bond, brace, clincher, coat hook, cramp, crook, gaff, hasp, hog-wash, holdfast, loop, snap, stirrup, tie-plate, trammel), anzol (angle, fishhook), enganchar (clasp, cling to, get caught on, interlock). (various references)

Romanian

cosor (pruning knife), încârliga (bend), încopcia (staple), agãţa (accost, attach, clench, grapple, hang, importune, suspend), agrafã (brooch, clasp, cramp, fastener, hairpin, snap, staple), anina (hang), aplica un croşeu, belciug, cârlig (clamp, clasp, crook, crotchet, Fang, grapnel, grapple, hanger, harpoon, peg, staple), cange (boat hook, gaff), capcanã (catcher, death trap, decoy, gin, net, noose, pit fall, pitfall, snare, toil, trap, wait), ciordi (filch, pilfer, pinch, prig), ţurloi (gully, sewer), copcã (air hole, hole), undiţã (angle, fish hook, fishing rod, line, rod), cotiturã bruscã, crampon (calk, crampon, dog, holdfast, Spike, staple, stud), croşetã (crochet hook, square bracket), croşeu, fura (abstract, crib, defalcate, embezzle, filch, kidnap, knock off, lift, make away with, nibble, nim, pick pockets, pilfer, pill, pinch, plagiarize, poach, prig, purloin, Raven, reave, snake, steal, thieve), limbã de pãmânt în mare (headland), momealã (bait, decoy, enticement, lure), nadã (bait, lure), prinde cu o agrafã, prinde cu un cârlig (grapple), pune mâna pe (catch hold of, get, get hold of, gripe, impound, jog, land, nab, pot, seize, seize hold of), toartã (bail, ear, handle, lug, shackle), clenci (artifice, belt hook, crook, dispute, quarrel, thorn). (various references)

Russian 

скоба (clamp, clevis, clip, cramp, holdfast, rim, shackle, staple, strap, yoke), цеплять крючком, крючок (crotchet, fishhook, fishing hook, hasp), крюк (crook, gab, grapnel, grapple, grappling iron, piton, rocking-turn), крутой изгиб, кривой нож, застегивать (buckle up, clasp, zip up), зацепка (hitch, toehold), ловить (catch, caught 2, snares, snaring), багор (boat-hook, pole), пристегивать (buckle), подцепить, перехватывать захват рычажный. (various references)

Scottish

stalc (stiffen, tie a fishing hook), snòd (affix a fishing hook to the line), maoirne (a bait for a fishing hook), fannadh (fishing with a feathered hook), dubhan (a hook, fishing hook, hooked claw), crochan (pot hook), corran (a sickle, a spear, headland, reaping hook, sickle), clip (a hook), clic (a hook), clìchd (a cunning trick, an iron hook), bùlas (pot hook), adhal (flesh hook). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian