uncus ī, m 1 AC-, a hook, barb: ferreus, L.: severus (an attribute of Necessitas), H.: uncus inpactus est fugitivo illi, i. e. the hook of the executioner (in the neck of a criminal condemned to death): Seianus ducitur unco Spectandus, Iu.: bene cum decusseris uncum, i. e. hast escaped a great peril, Pr.