sister hook

English

Noun

sister hook (plural sister hooks)

1. Either of a pair of hooks fitted together, the shank of one forming a mousing for the other.

Synonyms

• match hook

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sister hook”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)