A bend, cape, or corner. Du. Hoek.
1832. We were kept off the hook, waiting either for wind or tide.—E. C. Wines, ‘Two Years and a Half in the Navy,’ i. 19.
This name was given in N.Y. to several bends in the North and East Rivers: as Corlear’s Hook, Powle’s Hook, Sandy Hook, &c. (Bartlett, 1860.)
