canthook

The axe handle was not long enough, and the foreman's canthook had disappeared.

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

Powell had his jacket off and was working like the devil with a canthook.

The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

The huge pile of pulp, at which men were picking and prying with pickaxe and canthook, ought to be a gold mine in these days of high prices of paper.

At Plattsburg Allen French 1908

(so Nan thought) that her cousin could start the top log with the great canthook, and guide it as it rolled off the sled so that it should lie true with timbers that had been piled before.

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

a canthook pushed off a log that had caught and swung upon a small bank.

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

Hook your canthook on the other side and stop the log from rolling before it mashes you flat, "advised Hippy.

Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

He does about the quickest and hardest yank with a canthook I ever saw, "mused Bob.

The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

I don't pay a foreman's wages for canthook work; I hire him to keep the men busy, and he sure can't do it if he occupies his time and attention rolling logs. "

The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909