- Catch hook or clamp - Catch, hook, or clamp - Something used to secure and hold in place something
else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp,
etc.; hence, a support. - A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is
attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not
specially absorbent of moisture.