Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hook; a hamulus.
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Examples
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Vix hamus fumdum attigit, illicò insigni aliquo onustus est.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Vix hamus fundum attigit, illicò insigni aliquo onustus est.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In Philof.botan. we have harm triglochides y as in Lappala; but the hamus or hook has a curved point. — the glochis a flraight one.
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T) Dn. nsn hamus, No. ff R. ort exffeBitrunt, prit.
Lexicon novum hebraeo-latinum: ad modum Lexici Schreveliani graeci ... William Robertson , Johannes Leusden , François Halma , Cornelis Schrevel 1687
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