gang hook

gang′ hook`

a fishhook with several points that is made by joining the shanks of two or three hooks.

[1625–35, Amer.]

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Its size rivals the boat itself with almost as much wood involved, with enough gang hooks eager to drag Lake Superior for drowned ore-men.

Learning to fish

SNARED: The gull struggled in the water after the gang hooked it on a fishing line' FLUNG ABOUT: One of the youths picks up the terrified bird and swings it around' BATTERED: The exhausted creature is struck repeatedly with a baton until long after it dies