hamated

English

Adjective

hamated (comparative more hamated, superlative most hamated)

1. Hooked, or with hooks

   Synonym: hamate

   hamated lines

   • 1704, Jonathan Swift, The Mechanical Operation of Spirit:

     Farther, that nothing less than a violent Heat, can disentangle these Creatures [animal spirits] from their hamated station of Life, or give them Vigor and Humor, to imprint the Marks of their little Teeth.

   • 1802, Samuel Latham Mitchill, The Medical Repository:

     The jaws were furnished with hooks or hamated teeth, in the manner common to snakes.

References

• “hamated”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.