cant hook
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noun
a wooden lever with a movable iron hook and a blunt, often toothed tip near the lower end, used chiefly for grasping and canting, or turning over logs.
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| cant hook or cant dog | |
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| forestry a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs | |
| cant dog or cant dog | |
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Cant hook
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Example sentences
The workers had not attached a tag line to the pole and did not have a cant hook or other means of preventing pole rotation.
The cant hook was originally used with a jam pike--a long pole with a spiked end.
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