hook off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To curve to the side from a straight trajectory.
Example Sentences
- "At about 4.5 p.m. it come back, tender in front, with 15 or 16 waggons, and stopped with the last of the waggons clear of No. 7; about five were hooked off and let down into the siding by gravity, and as soon as I had restored No. 7 point for the main line, the driver had put the engine into foraward motion and was just upon starting when the collision took place at 4.8 p.m. three minutes before the passenger train was due in the station."
- "The guard then hooked off the engine and told us to run round the train with the engine."
- "We then found out we were in the wrong place, so the trailers had to be hooked off to turn the Jeeps round."
- "I hooked off a policeman's coat and cap, and put them on."
- "The road you were on would change; you'd be driving on 35, and if you missed the small road that hooked off to the left, you'd suddenly be on 211."
- "Long black hair tied back in a real flip-pin' ponytail; smooth white skin; black, flashing eyes; and eyebrows that hooked off like they wanted to get somewhere real fast."