skyhook n. 1

When the thread is long enough it [sc. the gossamer spider] launches itself into the air at the end of its rope, which is not even attached to a ‘sky-hook’.

The battery signaller sent a message: ‘Battery out of action for an hour, remain aloft awaiting orders.’ Back came the reply with remarkable promptitude: ‘Submitted; that this machine is not fitted with sky-hooks.’

When the sky-hooks are connected, And the tent-keys lock the tents, Leery lessons we've neglected Are assigned by learned gents.

Hurtling thru the stratosfere somewhere, a tiny piece of matter bobbed up & down just this side of the heaviside layer where the rockets turn to the right & take the airlane to Jupiter past the array of billboards hanging by skyhooks on the clouds.

I told one fella that, no, I wasn’t going fishing, I was going to fasten on to a sky-hook and swing myself t' the other side of the river.

The two pieces of paper in his pocket seemed to lift him up as if he were attached to a sky-hook.