boat hook
a hook mounted at the end of a pole, used to pull or push boats toward or away from a landing, to pick up a mooring, etc.
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How to use boat hook in a sentence
The launch was already under way, and young Cargill trying to avoid it better, thrust with his boat-hook at the side of the lock.
Uncanny Tales | VariousLeaning then his boat-hook against a log he met in the water, David turned his boat out of the way of this perilous obstruction.
The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence | Eugne SueSo saying, David disengaged his boat-hook from the entanglement of the branches of the poplar-trees.
The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence | Eugne SueHalyard's hand crept backward where a steel-shod boat-hook lay, and I also made a clutch at it.
In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. ChambersDéruchette heard the sound of the boat-hook among the shingle, and the step of the man on the gunwale of the boat.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo
British Dictionary definitions for boathook
/ (ˈbəʊtˌhʊk) /
a pole with a hook at one end, used aboard a vessel for fending off other vessels or obstacles or for catching a line or mooring buoy
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