Noun
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wikipedia)
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en-noun)
An hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
* {{quote-book
| year = 1995
| title = Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
| author = (
Daniel Dennett)
| isbn = 0-684-80290-2
| page = 80
| pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=FvRqtnpVotwC&pg=PA80&dq=skyhooks
| passage = Those who yearn for
skyhooks call those who eagerly settle for cranes "reductionists", and they can often make reductionism seem philistine and heartless.
}}
* {{quote-book
| date = 2012-06-19
| title = On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)
| author = Jonnie Hughes
| location = New York
| publisher = Free Press
| isbn = 1439110247
| page = 188
| pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=fA396xcLvQcC&pg=PA188&dq=skyhook
| passage = It wasn't a miraculous
skyhook —no god was needed.
}}
An overhead winch.
* {{quote-magazine
| year = 2009
| month = January
| author = Mike Brown
| title = The Art of Dismantling Your Restoration Project
| magazine = Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader
| page = 109
| pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=AnunTPRQpf8C&pg=PA109&dq=skyhook
| passage = To each bolt attach a short length of chain and then run the individual chains to another large one that is run up to the
skyhook , which is nothing more than a ratchet cable winch held by an overhead rafter.
}}
* {{quote-book
| year = 2013
| title = Jared's Song: Elrek's Rise
| author = Mike Ginns
| location = Bloomington, IN
| publisher = (
AuthorHouse)
| page = 394
| pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=cSxuuC37fk0C&pg=PA394&dq=skyhook
| passage = Jeta stood with her knobbly fists on her hips watching the two of them Goo the cylinders to the
skyhooks . Those were the invaluable little workhorses of the construction forces everywhere. A simple but powerful grav unit with a winch and a hook.
}}
A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
