What is another word for hooke?

Pronunciation: [hˈʊk] (IPA)

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Hooke

Then came into the garden to me young Mr. Powell and Mr. hooke that I once knew at Cambridge, and I took them in and gave them a bottle of wine, and so parted.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
Notes of the experiments shown by hooke and Boyle are given in Birch's "History of the Royal Society," vol.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
Thence back with Mr. hooke to my house and there lent some of my tables of naval matters, the names of rigging and the timbers about a ship, in order to Dr. Wilkins' book coming out about the Universal Language.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke

Famous quotes with Hooke

  • For angling-rod he took a sturdy oake; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; His hooke was such as heads the end of pole To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole; The hook was baited with a dragon's tale,— And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.
    William Davenant
  • Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.
    Edmund Spenser

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