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Word entry · 7 letters

skyhook

Best crossword clue

"Imaginary overhead support"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈskaɪˌhʊk/Part of speech nounSorted hkkoosyStarts with SEnds with K1 clues
1S2K3Y4H5O6O7K

Definitions

  1. a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky

Word origin

From sky + hook.

Used in a sentence

  • Those who yearn for skyhooks call those who eagerly settle for cranes "reductionists", and they can often make reductionism seem philistine and heartless.
  • It wasn't a miraculous skyhook—no god was needed.
  • To each bolt attach a short length of chain and then run the individual chains to another large one that is run up to the skyhook, which is nothing more than a ratchet cable winch held by an overhead rafter.

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