Sentence examples for fishhooks from inspiring English sources

Bone was a particularly useful material, for its toughness made feasible barbed fishhooks, eyed needles, and small leatherworking awls.

Fishing lures (some carved as fish), fishhooks, and adzes follow Polynesian types, and the patu type of club in whalebone existed in both areas.

In particular, metal allowed the fashioning of many small items, articles of a size awkward to make of bone or horn, such as pins, fishhooks, and awls.

The Northeastern peoples desired objects such as guns, brass pots and kettles, metal needles and fishhooks, glass beads, and cloth.

For instance, a comparison of material goods such as stone adzes and fishhooks from widely separated groups reveals a remarkable similarity.

Stone microliths (tiny stone blades, edges, and points) used as arrowheads or set into the cutting edges of mattocks, axes, and adzes are common, and many bone and wood tools are known as well: bows and arrows, antler and bone spearheads, bone fishhooks, wooden paddles, and even a dugout canoe.

The borough is known for its needle, fishhook, and spring manufactures.

One of humankind's earliest tools was the predecessor of the fishhook: a gorge that is, a piece of wood, bone, or stone 1 inch (2.5 cm) or so in length, pointed at both ends and secured off-centre to the line.

Several threatened or endangered plant species are found in the park, including the Wright fishhook cactus (Sclerocactus wrightiae).

It includes pincushion, fishhook, snowball, bird's-nest, golden-star, thimble, old woman, coral, royal cross, feather, and lemon ball cacti, all of which are small plants suitable to indoor cultivation or outdoor cultivation in warmer climates.

Improved methods of fishhook making were devised in the 1650s by Charles Kirby, who later invented the Kirby bend, a distinctive shape of hook with an offset point that is still in common use worldwide.