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  • noun A hook shaped bend in a river, road etc.

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Examples

  • In one pocket was his long, light, hand-line, carefully coiled, with a selected sneck-bend hook of tempered steel made fast to the line by the smallest and firmest of knots.

    Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • The delicate black hackle which Mr. Stewart praises so highly (and which should always be tied on a square sneck-bend hook) will kill in June and

    Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

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