in angling, &c. See FISHING-hook.

Hooks, in building, &c. are of various sorts; some of iron and others of brafs, viz. 1. Armour-hooks, which are generally of brafs, and are to lay up arms upon, as guns, muskets, half-pikes, pikes, javelins, &c. 2. Calement-hooks. 3. Chimney-hooks, which are made both of brafs and iron, and of different fashions: their use is to fet the tongs and fire-hovel against. 4. Certain-hooks. 5. Hooks for doors, gates, &c. 6. Double line-hooks, large and small. 7. Single line-hooks, large and small. 8. Tenter-hooks of various sorts. See TENTER.

Hooks of a ship, are all those forked timbers which are placed directly upon the keel, as well in her run as in her rake.

Can-Hooks, those which being made fast to the end of a rope with a noose (like that which brewers ufe to fling or carry their barrels on), are made ufe of for flings.

Foot-Hooks, in a ship, the fame with futtocks.

Loof-Hooks, a tackle with two hooks; one to hitch into a cringle of the main or fore-fail, in the bolt-rope at the leech of the fail by the clew; and the other is to hitch into a strap, which is spliced to the chefs-tree.

Their ufe is to pull down the fail, and succour the tackles in a large fail and stiff gale, that all the strels may not bear upon the tack. It is also ufed when the tack is to be feized more secure, and to take off or put on a bonnet or drabler.

HOOK-PINS, in Architecture, are taper iron pins, only with a hook-head, to pin the frame of a roof or floor together.