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Circle hook — An example of a Circle Hook A circle hook is a type of fish hook which is sharply curved back in a circular shape. It has become widely popular among anglers in recent years because it hooks a much higher percentage of fish and is rarely… … Wikipedia
Circle Justice — is a Native American form of justice, originating in Canada that seeks healing in contrary to the regular punishment ways and is portrayed in Ben Mikaelsen s novel Touching Spirit Bear . It is mostly practiced in Minnesota and some other… … Wikipedia
Hook and lateral — The hook and lateral or hook and ladder is a trick play in American or Canadian football. It starts with the hook, which is where a wide receiver runs a predetermined distance, usually 10 yards down the field, and along the sideline, and hooks in … Wikipedia
Circle of the gorge — Gorge Gorge, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[.r] to devour. Cf. {Gorget}.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
hook — 1) a bent piece of wire with its tip sharpened and often a barb below the tip, used to catch fish. Available in many sizes and styles, variously numbered and named. May be single, double or treble but all these are counted as one hook in angling… … Dictionary of ichthyology
circle — Synonyms and related words: O, acquaintance, advance, alentours, alternate, ambience, ambit, anklet, annular muscle, annulus, anthelion, antisun, aphelion, apogee, arc, arena, areola, armlet, arsis, ascend, associates, astronomical longitude,… … Moby Thesaurus
hook — Synonyms and related words: L, Long Melford, abstract, acquitted, all the way, allure, anchor, anchorage, and, and sinker, angle, angle off, annex, apex, appropriate, arc, arch, argue into, articulate, backhand, backhander, backstroke, bag, bait … Moby Thesaurus
Hook’s joint effect — The movement of a rotor blade to reposition itself relative to the other blades when a cyclic stick is applied. This situation arises when the plane of the rotor disc and the drive shaft are not normal to each other. In I and II, the helicopter… … Aviation dictionary
Fish hook — Fishhook redirects here. For other uses, see Fishhook (disambiguation). Anatomy of a fish hook A fish hook is a device for catching fish either by impaling them in the mouth or, more rarely, by snagging the body of the fish. Fish hooks have been… … Wikipedia
Vienna Circle — The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers who gathered around Moritz Schlick when he was called to the Vienna University in 1922, organized in a philosophical association named Verein Ernst Mach (Ernst Mach… … Wikipedia
