Hook

Hook (countable and uncountable, plural Hooks)

1. A surname​.
2. A suburb in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England.
3. A town near Basingstoke in Hampshire, England.
4. A village in Fareham borough, Hampshire, England.
5. A village near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
6. A village near Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England.
7. A village in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
8. A rural locality in South Canterbury, New Zealand, on the Hook River.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hook is the 2680^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 13437 individuals. Hook is most common among White (90.12%) individuals.

• OHKO

From Middle Low German hôk (“corner, angle”), from Old Saxon hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz. Compare the sense “small cluster of houses” in cognate Dutch hoek.

• IPA^(key): /hoːk/

Hook m (genitive Hookes, plural Höke or Hööke)

1. (regional, Westphalia, chiefly in toponyms) a small cluster of farms, often no more than three to five

• The land shared by a Hook is typically called Esch.

From Middle Low German hôk, from Old Saxon hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz. More at hook.

Hook m (plural Hoken)

1. corner
2. angle
3. tip of land; headland; point; foreland