cant-hook

"Bill, I believe I can now make even with Kirkpatrick for the two dollars he owes me for the cant-hook."

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

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

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 Various

In hiring the new man, the employer had promised to buy him a dog, or cant-hook, of sufficient size to suit a man of uncommon stature.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

To rectify the fault, Thorpe dug his cant-hook into the timber and threw his weight on the stock.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

Gladys swarmed the slanting face of the load; interposed the length of his cant-hook stock between the log and it; held it exactly long enough to straighten the timber, but not so long as to crush his own head and arm; and ducked, just as the great piece of wood rumbled over the end of the skids and dropped with a thud into the place Norton, the "top" man, had prepared for it.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

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

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

Sometimes he allows himself to be carried up bodily, clinging to the cant-hook like an acrobat to a bar, until the log has rolled once; when, his weapon loosened, he drops lightly, easily to the ground.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

When you reflect that one pair of horses takes care of the exertions of a crew of sawyers, several swampers, and three or four cant-hook men, you will readily see what a serious derangement their loss would cause.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

Whenever it began to deviate from the straight rolling necessary to keep it on the center of the skids, one of the workers thrust the shoe of his cant-hook under one end of the log.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

He had selected also, a blacksmith, a cook, four teamsters, half a dozen cant-hook men, and as many handy with ax or saw.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909