hook; barb of an arrow; spike
Latin word, found 53 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.73.9: Id ex similitudine floris lilium appellabant. Ante haec taleae pedem longae ferreis hamis infixis totae in terram infodiebantur mediocribusque intermissis spatiis omnibus locis disserebantur; quos stimulos nominabant.
Ovid, Heroides 19.13: Nunc volucrem laqueo, nunc piscem ducitis hamo;
Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.47: Aucupibus noti frutices; qui sustinet hamos,
All forms of hamus