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Webster 1913 Edition

(hā′mā̍-tĕd)

Adj.

Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.

Swift.

Adj.

[L. hamatus, from hama, a hook.]

Hooked or set with hooks.

hamated ‎(comparative more hamated, superlative most hamated)

Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.
- Jonathan Swift, The Mechanical Operation of Spirit:
  Farther, that nothing less than a violent Heat, can disentangle these Creatures [animal spirits] from their hamated station of Life, or give them Vigor and Humor, to imprint the Marks of their little Teeth.
- 1802, Samuel Latham Mitchill, The Medical Repository
  The jaws were furnished with hooks or hamated teeth, in the manner common to snakes.