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cant hook
[kant hook]
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.
cant hook
noun
forestry a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs
Word History and Origins
Origin of cant hook1
Example Sentences
A landing is built of cribwork and the logs are simply rolled on the truck with peavies or cant hooks, or a parbuckle system with skids and horses is used.
Theirs was talk of cant hooks and spike poles, calipers and rafts.
Going up against the current, only poles and cant hooks—tedious going.
After my first rice tafel I dreamed I was a log jam and that lumber jacks with cant hooks were trying to pry me apart.
A moment more, and Ba'tiste, with a sudden exclamation, allowed his cant hook to drop to the ground.
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