fish-hook

  • 11fish-hook flea — a crustacean (Cercopagis pengoi, Cladocera) from the Black and Caspian seas now introduced to North American lakes. Their tails are long, spiny and shaped like a fish hook and they hook themselves together, clogging fish nets and lines …

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  • 12fish hook wire — a wire of twisted strands with a piece of wire resembling a fish hook inserted at intervals …

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  • 13fish-hook wire — a wire of twisted strands with a piece of wire resembling a fish hook inserted at intervals …

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  • 14fish hook — 1) a bent piece of wire with its tip sharpened and often a barb below the tip used to catch fish. Available in many sizes and styles. May be single, double or treble but all these are counted as one hook in angling regulations. Hooks separated by …

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  • 15fish-hook — 1) a bent piece of wire with its tip sharpened and often a barb below the tip used to catch fish. Available in many sizes and styles. May be single, double or treble but all these are counted as one hook in angling regulations. Hooks separated by …

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  • 16fish hook — Cockney Rhyming Slang Book I ve read the new fish by Deighton …

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  • 17fish·hook — noun, pl hooks [count] : a small curved piece of metal that is attached to the end of a piece of fishing line and used to catch fish …

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  • 18fish hook displacement — a medical condition in humans where the stomach is displaced. The orifice of the pylorus faces directly upward and the duodenum runs upward and to the right to join the pylorus at an angle, producing a constricting hook. Asymptomatic …

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  • 19fish-hook displacement — a medical condition in humans where the stomach is displaced. The orifice of the pylorus faces directly upward and the duodenum runs upward and to the right to join the pylorus at an angle, producing a constricting hook. Asymptomatic …

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  • 20fish hook — noun The name of the International Phonetic Alphabet character, used to represent an alveolar tap …

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