Burton: alternatives and connections

To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.

A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…

The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.

A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dea…

An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop…

To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral dista…

A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce…

The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.

A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.

To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.

A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, rop…

Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.