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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooked p. pr. & vb. n. Hooking.]
 1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
    Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice.   --W. Collins.
 2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
 3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]
 To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.