To unhook or remove from a hook.
At about 4.5 p.m. it come back, tender in front, with 15 or 16 waggons, and stopped with the last of the waggons clear of No. 7; about five were hooked off and let down into the siding by gravity, and as soon as I had restored No. 7 poin…
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To curve to the side from a straight trajectory.
The guard then hooked off the engine and told us to run round the train with the engine.
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To remove with a hooking motion.
We then found out we were in the wrong place, so the trailers had to be hooked off to turn the Jeeps round.
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