Sentence examples for butcher's hook from inspiring English sources
noun
A hook used by a butcher for hanging carcasses or meat from.
It pictured a skinned pony hanging from a butcher's hook.
He says: "Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to hang me from a butcher's hook.
He vowed revenge in 2005, saying he would hang those responsible "on a butcher's hook".
Adam'n'Eve (believe); apples'n'pears (stairs); Barnet fair (hair); Jack the Ripper (kipper); butcher's hook (look); dog'n'bone (phone).
At the Hepworth, one work snaggles from the ceiling, a butcher's hook dangling overhead.
You need to be braced for violence to rival any Jacobean tragedy: The Butcher's Hook will hook you.
His enemies are as bad or worse, routinely hanging people from butcher's hooks or setting about them with scalpels.
He had scored some vintage butcher's hooks, and he spoke of them that day as if they were relics discovered in a vault at the Cloisters.
Something in the darkness moved, and the butcher's hooks, hanging along the rafters, clinked against one another, and my grandfather knew that it was the tiger.
If these Dartmoor ponies were grazing peacefully one day and then hanging from butcher's hooks the next, protesters would overrun the streets of Devon.
One with a spinning, crown-like top was "a little ominous and industrial, almost like butcher's meat hooks on a ring," she said.
