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† ˈbead-hook Obs.
Also 7 beedhook.
[Chiefly in Chapman: can he have formed it from OE. beadu battle, war? Cf. OE. beadu wæpen weapon of battle, etc.]
? A kind of boat hook.
1600Chapman Iliad xv. 356 The Greeks with bead-hooks fought. 1614― Odyss. ix. 651 A bead-hook then..I snatch'd up. 1631― Cæsar & P. Plays 1873 III. 180 Yet beare halfe pikes or bead-hookes. 1614Raleigh Hist. World II. viii. iii. §18. 474 Corne, Iron, Canuas for Sailes, Axes, Beede-hookes, Hand-milles. |