Any of various types of hook or hooked instrument; esp. one used as an instrument of torture.

An instrument, weapon, or tool of hooked form; a hook. spec. †(a) a reaping-hook, sickle; (b) a hook for grappling or catching; (c) a hook or bent…

An iron hook; a staff or stick armed with this. Now only dialect.

? A hook.

A small hook, esp. for fastening things; an ornamental hook serving as a brooch or fastening.

A hook, a crook; esp. ‘a stick with a hook at the end of it, to pull down the boughs of a tree, to draw weeds out of ditches,’ etc. (Forby).

An implement for fastening the buttons of boots, gloves, etc., typically consisting of a small metal hook with a long, often decorative, handle…

transferred. A mechanical or other contrivance resembling a claw; e.g. a curved iron with sharpened extremity for grappling or tearing; the back part…

a hook used to handle, close, or lift boxes.

A length of metal, or piece of wood or other material, bent back, or fashioned with a sharp angle, often forming a part of something, as a pole…

A pole with a hook or similar implement at the end, used to open and close high windows.