Hooker

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1. A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of hooks.
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noun

Etymology: From Dutch hoeker, an alteration of Middle Dutch hoecboot, from hoec + boot.

1. A small fishing boat.

   “In England there are Brighton Beach boats, Centre-board sloops, Pollywogs, Lough Erne yachts, Unas, New Brighton sailing-boats, yachts of the Norfolk Broads, Itchen, Clyde sailing and Keystone boats, Penzance luggers, Cobbles, Galways, Hookers and Pookhauns […]”

2. Any antiquated craft.

   “[T]he poor Flash is gone, and there is an end of it. Poor old hooker. Hey, Almayer? You made a voyage or two with me. Wasn’t she a sweet craft?”

   “[…] for there was scarce one of us that thought the old hooker would weather so long and hard a blow. We were mighty fortunate to come through it so handily.”