Lexicographical Neighbors of Canthooks
Literary usage of Canthooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thoughts on Books to Read and Books to Burn: A Compilation in Three Parts by Charles Elisher Blakeman (1906)
"It was the oxen that helped me out sometimes in peeling those logs, when men and
canthooks could not turn a log the teamster's help was called for. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering: A General Reference Work on Surveying by American Technical Society (1920)
"... Items Blocks (iron and wood) Boiler tools Boring machines Brads Brooms Brushes
Buckets Bush hooks Cables canthooks Car movers Car replacers Chain blocks ..."
3. The Annual Library Index edited by William Isaac Fletcher, Helen Elizabeth Haines (1908)
"Daniel's vision; meaning of the fourth great beast. (G: M. Jarvis) Arena, 38:
5i9~25(No7). Daniels, Bradford K. canthooks anl ..."
4. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1915)
"... and canthooks. They were paid at the rate of 60 cents per hour per team.
On rush work, or work requiring great strength in loading the freight cars, ..."
5. Theme-building by Charles Henshaw Ward (1920)
"Two men with canthooks now pry the logs loose, and they (the logs) roll down the
slope into the water. 261. When cotton is being picked, the fiber is likely ..."
6. America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-mine, with an by Nathan Haskell Dole (1922)
"Mr. Longyear furnished them with steel timber-hooks which were the nearest approach
to canthooks that could be found at Trondhjem and showed them how to use ..."
7. The Engineer in War, with Special Reference to the Training of the Engineer by Paul Stanley Bond (1916)
"machetes, hatchets, saws, two-man saws, wire cutters and pliers, a few light
jacks, augers (large sizes), a few short rock drills, canthooks or ..."
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