eyehook
- noun
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gancho
- He twisted the three-pronged hooks into the belly of the wooden fish and inserted the eyehook under the fish's bottom jaw.
Examples
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Inside, on cotton batting, were two treble fish hooks on screweyes, and a plain eyehook.
Fiction book (2002) -
Through the grapevine of plein-air painters, I have since learned that one must always screw eyehooks into the back of the wooden stretcher, anchoring it to the ground with fishing wire.
Academic text (2012) -
She secured the curtains to the wall using eyehooks for a neat finish.
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He hung the painting on the wall with a sturdy eyehook to ensure it wouldn't fall.
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The strap was attached to the bag using eyehooks to keep it securely in place.
Synonyms
192
1.0
A curved piece used to catch or hang things
14
2.6
A small hook or buckle that fastens things together
1
3.6
A small metal piece with a hook that fits into a loop to hold clothes closed
1
5.0
A metal bolt with a looped head used to attach a rope or cable
1
5.8
A short metal rod with a round loop at one end for hanging things
A small metal hook that you screw under a shelf to hang cups by the handles
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eyehook is simply the two words eye and hook put together, where eye means 'a small loop or hole' (as in the 'eye of a needle') and hook means 'a curved piece of metal'. So an eyehook is a small hooked loop used to fasten, hang, or hold things, especially on clothing.