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Definition of Boathooks
1. boathook [n] - See also: boathook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boathooks
Literary usage of Boathooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Across Greenland's Ice-fields: The Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the by Mary Douglas (1902)
"... and in another moment would have been in the water had not his pursuers, who
were provided with boathooks, struck them into him and held 'him fast. ..."
2. Selections from the Letters (private and Professional) of Sir Henry by Henry John Codrington (1880)
"Of course we instantly snatched up stretchers and boathooks, jumped out of ...
then presenting boathooks and stretchers, we fairly poked him down again to ..."
3. Naval Militiaman's Handbook by William H. Stayton (1895)
"He will then see that all her fittings, including oars, boathooks, fenders,
colors, compass and breaker of fresh water are in her. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"... one lance, two- seal-clubs, two boathooks, mast and sails. Hot tea was made
during the journey, morning and evening, and a hot dinner cooked daily. ..."
5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"... with cannon and musketry fire through the darkness, and even assailing them
with harpoons and boathooks, the veterans struggled on through the waters. ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... with cannon and musketry fire through the darkness, and even assailing them
with harpoons and boathooks, the veterans struggled on through the waters. ..."
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