(adjective) : hāmātus, a, um, hamus
* Furnished with a hook, hooked.
* Lit.: ungues,Ov. M. 12, 563: harundo,id. ib. 5, 384: sentes,id. ib. 2, 799.
* Transf., shaped like a hook, hooked, crooked: hamatis uncinatisque corporibus concreta haec esse dicat, * Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 121: ensis, i. q. harpe,Ov. M. 5, 80 (cf.: ferrum curvo tenus abdidit hamo,id. ib. 4, 720).
* Trop.: hos ego viscatis hamatisque muneribus non sua promere puto, sed aliena corripere,i. e. catching, alluring,Plin. Ep. 9, 30, 2 (cf. with hamus, id. Pan. 43 fin.; Mart. 6, 63, 5; v. hamus, I. B. 1. b.).

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