Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small hook or hook-shaped process.
  • noun One of the hook-shaped bodies which form a circle about the head of the echinococcus, and are found floating free in the fluid of a hydatid cyst.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A little hook.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A small or minute hook.

Etymologies

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hook +‎ -let; compare háček‎

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