I managed to hook my fingers under the edge of the arm and put more effort into it, waggling it back and forth. |
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Is a perpetrator off the hook because he or she uses the market to pay the kickback? |
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Zuckerberg himself has bragged that he is able to predict which site members will hook up with whom based on their site activity. |
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The heavily-tattooed Perez never recovered, getting nailed with flush head shots before a clean-up left hook cleaned his clock. |
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If the explorer could make Kamalia he might be able to hook up with a slave coffle heading for the coast. |
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With another huge effort he grabbed the bucket hook again, mentally crossing his fingers for the bolts in the thin plywood to hold. |
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Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack. |
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The boxer made a feint with his right, then followed with a left hook. |
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He used a hook in one hand, called an ankhus, to guide the elephant when voice and foot commands were not enough. |
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I fished carefully, used wet flies and dry, all that I had in my book, and even bemeaned myself by baiting a plain hook with a grasshopper. |
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He went on to invent the Kirby bend, a distinctive hook with an offset point, still commonly used today. |
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The practice of catching or attempting to catch fish with a hook is generally known as angling. |
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A fish hook or fishhook is a device for catching fish either by impaling them in the mouth or, more rarely, by snagging the body of the fish. |
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In 2005, the fish hook was chosen by Forbes as one of the top twenty tools in the history of man. |
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Sizes, designs, shapes, and materials are all variable depending on the intended purpose of the fish hook. |
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The fish hook or similar device has been made by man for many thousands of years. |
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Quality steel hooks began to make their appearance in Europe in the 17th century and hook making became a task for specialists. |
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In many cases, hooks are described by using these various parts of the hook. |
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Within these broad categories there are wide varieties of hook types designed for different applications. |
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For example, a delicate dry fly hook is made of thin wire with a tapered eye because weight is the overriding factor. |
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The shape of the hook shank can vary widely from merely straight to all sorts of curves, kinks, bends and offsets. |
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These different shapes contribute in some cases to better hook penetration, fly imitations or bait holding ability. |
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Triple hooks are formed by adding a single eyeless hook to a double hook and brazing all three shanks together. |
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Double hooks are used on some artificial lures and are a traditional fly hook for Atlantic Salmon flies, but are otherwise fairly uncommon. |
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The profile of the hook point and its length influence how well the point penetrates. |
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The barb influences how far the point penetrates, how much pressure is required to penetrate and ultimately the holding power of the hook. |
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Hook points are also described relative to their offset from the hook shank. |
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A kirbed hook point is offset to the left, a straight point has no offset and a reversed point is offset to the right. |
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If a hook goes in deep enough below the barb, pulling the hook out will tear the flesh. |
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The eye of a hook, although some hooks are technically eyeless, is the point where the hook is connected to the line. |
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However, within a manufacturer's range of hooks, hook sizes are consistent. |
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Hook sizes generally are referred to by a numbering system that places the size 1 hook in the middle of the size range. |
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The hook is usually attached to a fishing line and the line is often attached to a fishing rod. |
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None of these techniques fall under the definition of angling since they do not rely upon the use of a hook and line. |
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These competitions can involve live cattle or cattle carcases in hoof and hook events. |
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On the ram's forehead was a shearman's hook, a tool used in the handling of wool. |
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The hook was part of the insignia of the borough of Kendal, the administrative centre of the county council. |
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I placed the advertisement yesterday, and the phone has been ringing off the hook ever since. |
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We focused on the nerve-agent feint, and got roundhoused by the insurgent hook. |
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I bait his hook with a plump and squirmy shrimp. With one arm, he sidecasts between two spindly roots. |
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Deke mashed a wad of stinkbait onto the treble hook, then rinsed his fingers in the water to reduce the foul stench before lifting his beer can. |
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It was her nose was the worst. It seemed to have been twisted into a hook with a twiddly bit at the top. |
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Turn your loom so the arrows are facing oward you, put your hook inside the first eg, hook bottom band and loop forward. |
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The Widnes welder then stuck two white maggots on a 16s hook and helped himself to seven bream. |
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I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water. |
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He tried to clinch and gouge, but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out. |
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You had to have a heddle hook and a reed hook, and that's about all you really needed. |
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Advanced darts and harpoons also appear in this period, along with the fish hook, the oil lamp, rope, and the eyed needle. |
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Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity. |
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I told him you were just a friend, and he fell for it hook, line and sinker. |
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Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? |
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A hook on the end of the gun could be latched over the timber so the gunner did not have to take the full recoil of the weapon. |
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Warne and McGrath both went for ducks, caught off a mistimed hook and in the slips respectively. |
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In the second round, McCall landed a powerful right hook, putting Lewis on his back. |
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Khan was stiffened by a right hook in the second before steadying the ship and resuming control of the contest. |
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During the bout Haye unleashed a frightening combination made up of a right upper cut, left, then right hook to floor Mormeck. |
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We made sure to hang our wet clothes on the hook in the mudroom when we came in from the snow. |
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We made sure to hang our wet clothes on the hook in the mud room when we came in from the snow. |
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Together with the landing aircraft's arresting hook, it is used in situations where the aircraft's brakes would be insufficient by themselves. |
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The shell is usually crushed and the soft parts extracted and put on a hook. |
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Conn had the better of the fight through 12 rounds, although Louis was able to stun Conn with a left hook in the fifth, cutting his eye and nose. |
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When the boss assigned the project to Tom, the rest of us were relieved to be off the hook. |
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Wave refraction can occur at the end of a spit, carrying sediment around the end to form a hook or recurved spit. |
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This allows the claws to hook into the rough surface of the bark, opposing the force of gravity. |
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Charles Kirby designed an improved fishing hook in 1655 that remains relatively unchanged to this day. |
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It features a pop-out hook so germophobes can avoid touching A.T.M. keypads, door handles and other public surfaces where undesirable microbes may lurk. |
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Historically, many ancient fish hooks were barbless, but today a barbless hook is used to make hook removal and fish release less stressful on the fish. |
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This hook does not have any information about the changesets to be added, because it is run before transmission of those changesets is allowed to begin. |
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The heddle hook, used to draw in the broken ends of the warp, was carried in the mouth, the small pair of weaver's scissors in the palm of the hand. |
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Phil used a stillwater waggler rig, baiting a tiny 18s hook with luncheon meat cut into squares no bigger than one-eighth of an inch, plus hempseed as groundbait. |
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I left my canoe below the fish lay, casting upward, so if I could hook a fish from shore I could lead him down without danger of ruffing the pool. |
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Some other hook point names are used for branding by manufacturers. |
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If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network. |
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Caught on a size 18 hook with a single white maggot, it smashed her hubby's own PB perch, and also turned out to be the new lake record for the species. |
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An eentsy-weentsy office with a slam-bang T1 connection that she couldn't figure out how to hook up to her slam-bang computer that she couldn't figure out how to plug in. |
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The fish fell for bunches of red and white maggots on a size 6 Korda Kurv hook during a session which also produced fish of 24lb and 22lb for the 35-year-old. |
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The hook is easily big enough to pass through a man's hand, and if it catches some part of the baiter's body or clothing, he goes over the side with it. |
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A barbed hook could kill a fish if it were to penetrate the gills. |
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In round eight, Hatton absorbed a left hook to the chin that wobbled him. |
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In the ninth round, a left hook to the body sent Hatton to the floor. |
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When the host, Ross, placed some pads on his hands and gave Hatton gloves to hit them with, he knocked a pad clean off Ross's hand with a powerful left hook. |
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Instead of holding, Khan tried to punch back, but instead was punched on the head by a left hook, right hook combo, sending him crashing to the canvas. |
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When individual hook types are designed the specific characteristics of each of these hook components are optimized relative to the hook's intended purpose. |
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On his third full-length record, Every Dog Has Its Day, prodigy producer and ultrapop songster Mitch Easter continues his search for the perfect hook. |
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A free-kick from Matthew Etherington caused more confusion on the stroke of half-time but Mehmet Aurelio was able to hook the ball clear with Cameron Jerome poised to strike. |
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Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook. |
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The caman would be made from any piece of wood with a hook in it, hence caman, from the Scottish and Irish Gaelic word, cam meaning bent or crooked. |
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Jig hooks are designed to have lead weight molded onto the hook shank. |
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Graphically it originally probably depicted either a hook or a club. |
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Knitting, looping, and crocheting involve interlacing loops of yarn, which are formed either on a knitting needle, needle, or on a crochet hook, together in a line. |
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Without any evidence, the police had to let the suspect off the hook. |
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The hook point is probably the most important part of the hook. |
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I think he left the phone off the hook so that nobody would call him. |
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Could taxpayers really be on the hook for UAW pensions? Yes. |
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Afterward he took his smart visored cap off the hook and limped down town, his boots and leggings and uniform very spick and span from Ma Werner's expert brushing and rubbing. |
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Pelicans are very large birds with very long bills characterised by a downcurved hook at the end of the upper mandible, and the attachment of a huge gular pouch to the lower. |
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During cell division, formation of the hook ensures proper distribution of the newly divided nuclei into the apical and basal hyphal compartments. |
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Throughout the hook, Lorde's writing is indeed not linear, especially because of its ample use of analepsis and prolepsis, or flashbacks and flash-forwards. |
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He smiled and faked a hook to Frank's midsection. The idea of the phantom punch hitting his throbbing liver pushed Frank back onto the heels of his plain polished shoes. |
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