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bench hook

noun Carpentry.

a device with a hooklike part fitting over the front edge of a workbench as a means of preventing an object from slipping toward the rear of the bench.

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1815–25

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bench hook
noun
any of various stops on a workbench against which work can be pushed (as while chiseling or planing)

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