单词 | reef hook |
释义 | reef hookn. Nautical. rare. = rave-hook n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > caulking seams > tools chinsing-iron1508 caulker1543 reef hook1617 caulking-iron1627 caulking-mallet1627 horse-iron1750 rave-hook1780 meaking iron1853 sharp-iron1887 1617 Great Yarmouth Apprentice Enrollm. in Industr. Archaeol. (1972) 9 400 Luke Herringe to Edward Cannon:..one Caulkinge Iron one reevehooke one bilg mallet. 1644 Great Yarmouth Apprentice Enrollm. in Industr. Archaeol. (1972) 9 401 John Godfrey to George Collinson of Chatham, Kent:..caulking iron, reve hooke, bilge mallet. 1922 F. Riesenberg Standard Seamanship for Merchant Service xxii. 925 When old oakum is to be cleared out of a seam a reef hook is used. 1998 G. Rossel Building Small Boats (2003) iii. 23 The right tool in this situation is a hooked implement sometimes called a reef hook, a rake hook... This unit is just the ticket to get under the offending caulking fiber and other detritus and give it the old heave-ho. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1617 |
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