fishhook

[ fish-hoo k ]

/ ˈfɪʃˌhʊk /

a hook used in fishing.

Origin of fishhook

First recorded in 1350–1400, fishhook is from the Middle English word fischhook. See fish, hook¹

Furnished with rigid points or short bristles, usually reflexed like the barb of a fish-hook.

The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States |Asa Gray
Perhaps you would choose a fish-hook in the corner of your mouth?

The Ontario Readers |Ontario Ministry of Education
Her eyes sparkled like a fire-cracker of a dark night, and she had a mind as sharp as a fish-hook.

A Jolly Fellowship |Frank R. Stockton
But this time he looked so tired and drawn and spineless that a fish-hook of sudden pity tugged at my throat.

The Prairie Mother |Arthur Stringer

There were numerous remains of fishes, and a fish-hook manufactured from reindeer horn.

A Manual of the Antiquity of Man |J. P. MacLean

fish-hook

a sharp hook used in angling, esp one with a barb

logic a symbol (∋) for entailment