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hooker1 1. a commercial fishing boat using hooks and lines instead of nets 2. a sailing boat of the west of Ireland formerly used for cargo and now for pleasure sailing and racing hooker2 Rugby the central forward in the front row of a scrum whose main job is to hook the ball Hooker 1. John Lee. 1917--2001, US blues singer and guitarist 2. Sir Joseph Dalton. 1817--1911, British botanist; director of Kew Gardens (1865--85) 3. Richard. 1554--1600, British theologian, who influenced Anglican theology with The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593--97) 4. Sir William Jackson. 1785--1865, British botanist; first director of Kew Gardens: father of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker hooker [′hu̇k·ər] (mining engineering) A worker who detaches empty downcoming buckets and hook-loads buckets or cans onto the hoisting rope. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Raped, tortured and kept confined, often inside a coffin-like box beneath the Hookers' waterbed, the Hookers appeared mild-mannered and church-going. He told wives who suspect their husbands of visiting prostitutes to look for stains on their men's clothes and strange receipts in their pockets, and to bring those items as evidence to the police so they can use it to organize raids on the hookers. Morgenstern is funnier and less ponderous than Fleischman, however ("William was too lost in his thoughts to remember to say, `Just drop me off where the hookers hang around,' so he settled for `at the train station'''), and the book is so brief and concentrated that it's more like a fable itself than a realistic novel. |
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