cant hook

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A wooden lever with a movable metal hook near one end, used for handling or moving logs. It is similar to a peavey but has a blunt tip, often with teeth.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A wooden lever with an iron hook hinged at the end for canting or turning over heavy logs.
• noun A sling with hooks, used to empty casks by raising and tipping them.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• United States A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook at one end, used for handling and moving logs.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a peavey having a hook instead of a spike; used for handling logs