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Definition of Boat hook
1. Noun. Pole-handled hook used to pull or push boats.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boat Hook
Literary usage of Boat hook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"A sort of boat-hook. HO, *. Originally a call, from the interjection ho !
afterward rather like a stop or limit, in the two phrases, out of all ho, ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1850)
"Memoranda regarding an Ancient Iron Boat-Hook, found in the Carse of Gowrie.
By R. CHAMBERS, FRSE and VPSASc. Communicated by the Author. ..."
3. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Boat-hook. A pole whose end is furnished with an iron having a point and a hook,
it is used for holding on to a boat or other object, and is a part of the ..."
4. The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. by John Wesley (1840)
"He then struck down his boat hook at a venture, and caught him by the flap of
his coat, and pulled him to the boat side. He was quite sensible, and said, ..."
5. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)
"He narrated: "I just saw his head bobbing, and I dashed my boat-hook in the water.
It caught in his breeches and I nearly went overboard, as I thought I ..."
6. Ned Myers, Or, A Life Before the Mast by James Fenimore Cooper (1843)
"He broke our boat-hook, and once or twice, he came near boarding us. At length
a wood-boat gave us an axe, and with this we killed him. ..."
7. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1850)
"Memoranda regarding an Ancient Iron Boat-Hook, found in the Corse of Gowrie.
By R. CHAMBERS, FRSE and VPSASc. Communicated by the Author. ..."
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