boathook
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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No, simply reach out with your boathook and lift the clean, dry pennant off the unusual Y-shaped plank.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I also have a boathook ready, secured to the ladder or side railing with Velcro or a bungee cord.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia's red & green sidelights, and $1,500 by an enthusiastic ex-M.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Eventually they found a boathook, snagged the man’s boat, and dragged it alongside the workshop.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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Then the boathook was brought into use again to push off; and a minute or two later they were chugging along down-stream, heading once more toward the middle of the broadening river.
From Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida by Louis Arundel
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