† shear-hookn.

Etymology: < shear v. + hook n.¹

Nautical. Obsolete.

A sickle-shaped hook intended to destroy the enemy's rigging.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > hooks for cutting rigging

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1410–12 in N. H. Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 475 ii. seilyngnedeles, un dyall, un sherhok, un mykehok.

1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 39 Sherhokes for the yerde armes.

1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 124 The shippe fell aboorde of vs, and with her sheare hookes cut our maine saile.

1619 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 68 They should be fitted with ‘sheere hooks’, etc., to keepe off bording.

1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services 289 Sheer hooks are great Hooks of iron about the bigness and in the form of a sickle and they are let into the main-yard-arms.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 80.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	shear-hook
释义	† shear-hookn. Etymology: < shear v. + hook n.¹ Nautical. Obsolete. A sickle-shaped hook intended to destroy the enemy's rigging. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > hooks for cutting rigging hookc1385 shearing-hookc1385 shear-hook1410 1410–12 in N. H. Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 475 ii. seilyngnedeles, un dyall, un sherhok, un mykehok. 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 39 Sherhokes for the yerde armes. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 124 The shippe fell aboorde of vs, and with her sheare hookes cut our maine saile. 1619 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 68 They should be fitted with ‘sheere hooks’, etc., to keepe off bording. 1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services 289 Sheer hooks are great Hooks of iron about the bigness and in the form of a sickle and they are let into the main-yard-arms. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 80. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1410
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