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ˈflesh-hook
1. A hook for removing meat from the pot.
c1325in Rel. Ant. I. 292 Summe notes..arn..kroken a-weyward als a fleshoke. c1386Chaucer Sompn. T. 22 Ful hard it is, with fleischhok or with oules To ben y-clawed. c1440Promp. Parv. 166/1 Flesche hooke, creagra, fuscina. 1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. Pref. (Percy Soc.) 50 The scullians..Came forth with whittles, some other with fleshhooks. 1611Bible 2 Chron. iv. 16 The pots also, and the shouels, and the fleshhookes.
fig. R. Brathwait Descr. Death in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 271 Earth-turned, mole-eied, flesh-hook, that puls us hence.
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1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Flesh-hook, an iron hook with a long ‘stail,’ used to pull hides out of the tan-pits.
3. A hook to hang meat upon; a ‘pot-hook’.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 64 These roguish Arsemetrique gibbets or flesh-hookes, and cyphers, or round oos. 1874in Knight Dict. Mech. |