diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
index 2a5ea717f0614b..c24f4375e9d80f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
@@ -166,9 +166,9 @@ High-level interface
 
    The second argument, if present, specifies the file location to copy to (if
    absent, the location will be a tempfile with a generated name). The third
-   argument, if present, is a hook function that will be called once on
+   argument, if present, is a callable that will be called once on
    establishment of the network connection and once after each block read
-   thereafter.  The hook will be passed three arguments; a count of blocks
+   thereafter.  The callable will be passed three arguments; a count of blocks
    transferred so far, a block size in bytes, and the total size of the file.  The
    third argument may be ``-1`` on older FTP servers which do not return a file
    size in response to a retrieval request.