单词 | boat hook |
释义 | boat hookn. A long pole with a hook and a spike at one end, by means of which a boat can be pulled towards, or pushed off from, another vessel or a fixed object. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > boat-hook boat hook1485 bead-hook1600 hitcher1630 screw hook1688 grabbit hook1936 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 40 Sculles..ij. Bote hokes..ij. 1545–6 Raconyng Voy. Eyeslond in Mariner's Mirror (1939) 25 175 Itm. for ij Boet Hoeks. 1703 Jrnl. of Brigantine 28 Nov. in Mariner's Mirror (1921) 7 359 They could not feel the anchor with the boat-hook. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiii. 71 The bow-man had charge of the boat-hook and painter. 1906 R. Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 69 Dan hiked and howked with a boat-hook (the brook was too narrow for sculls). 2004 Sunday Times Trav. Feb. 159/2 But to eat, we need to moor, and to moor we need to choose a buoy, hook it with the boat hook and attach it to the yacht. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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