Hooklike

Word HOOKLIKE
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The real treasure, though, is the aforementioned "Windstorm," a percolating summer concoction with a hooklike gull's cry. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I know very little about them except that they grow and grow and that they cover the hillside now, and when I pass by them with my lawnmower buzzing they catch at my shirt and my arm with their remarkably hooklike sharp thorns. ❋ Nicholson Baker (2009)

De Mestral shoved a bit of burr under a microscope and saw that its barbed, hooklike seed pods meshed beautifully with the looped fibers in his clothes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Dozens of fishing nets had become snagged on the hooklike davits. ❋ CLIVE CUSSLER (2000)

The Zhakar carried a hooklike sword that could be used to stab, slash, or grasp an opponent. ❋ Niles, Douglas (1993)

She tried to lift a hand, fingers flexed for clawing, but then the hand fell down onto the sheet and the fingers lost their hooklike attitude. ❋ Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- (1981)

Then, with a swift encircling movement, that hooklike arm wrapped itself around Flint's neck and drew him into the shadow. ❋ John W. Grey (1908)

The tail is a grasping instrument, strongly prehensile, and aided by two hooklike claws, sheathed with horn, externally visible on each side, beneath, just anterior to the base of the tail. ❋ Unknown (1867)

They walk upside down, hanging from branches by their hooklike claws, and feed on leaves, buds, and young twigs.

As inferred from the passage, the skeleton of a pterosaur is distinguishable from that of a bird by the evidence of the hooklike projections on its hind feet ❋ Unknown (2009)

- noun any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold. any similar device for holding fast or checking motion ❋ Zatoichi (2010)

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