Hook

Variations

• Bagging hook, a large sickle or reaping hook used for harvesting grain
• Bondage hook, used in sexual bondage play
• Cabin hook, a hooked bar that engages into an eye screw, used on doors
• Cap hook, hat ornament of the 15th and 16th centuries
• Cargo hook, different types of hook systems for helicopters
• Crochet hook, used for crocheting thread or yarn
• Drapery hook, for hanging drapery
• Dress hook, fashion accessory
• Ear hook, to attach ear rings
• Fish hook, used to catch fish
• Flesh-hook, used in cooking meat
• Grappling hook, a hook attached to a rope, designed to be thrown and snagged on a target
• Hook and chain coupler
• Hook, also known as longshoreman's hook and bale hook, a tool used for securing and moving loads
• Hook, a film by Steven Spielberg released in 1991 starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman
• Hook-and-eye closure, a clothing fastener
• Hook and loop fastener
• Lifting hook, for grabbing and lifting loads
• Mail hook, for grabbing mail bags without stopping a train
• Meat hook, for hanging up meat or carcasses of animals in butcheries and meat industry
• Prosthetic hook or transradial prosthesis, part of a prosthetic arm for amputees
• Purse hook, used to keep a woman's purse from touching the floor
• Shepherd's hook, a staff used in herding sheep or other animals
• Siege hook, an Ancient Roman weapon used to pull stones from a wall during a siege
• Tailhook, used by aircraft to snag cables in order to slow down more quickly