cant hook

[ kant hook ]

noun

1. 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

1. 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

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

In hiring Lincoln, Kirkpatrick had promised to buy him a cant-hook to move heavy logs.

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Not an axe, peavey or cant-hook was touched; not a team was hitched up.

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A peavey is like a cant-hook except that it is pointed at the end.

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Thayer moved forward belligerently, one hand reaching toward a cant hook near by.

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Ba'tiste reached for the cant hook, and balancing it lightly in one hand, sought a resting place on the edge of the flume.

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