Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In lumbering, a large single hook used in handling logs, most commonly in skidding.
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Examples
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The driver, close to her tail, held fast the slender steel chain by an ingenious hitch about the ever-useful swamp-hook.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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When the log had been cat-a-cornered from its bed, the chain was fastened around one end by means of the ever-useful steel swamp-hook, and it was yanked across the dray.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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He did so by jamming into another log the steel swamp-hook with which the chain was armed.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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Henrys, after much difficulty and nervous fumbling, managed to loosen the swamp-hook; and after much more difficulty and nervous fumbling succeeded in making it fast about the gray mare's neck.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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He did so by jamming into another log the steel swamp-hook with which the chain was armed.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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Henrys, after much difficulty and nervous fumbling, managed to loosen the swamp-hook; and after much more difficulty and nervous fumbling succeeded in making it fast about the gray mare's neck.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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The driver, close to her tail, held fast the slender steel chain by an ingenious hitch about the ever-useful swamp-hook.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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When the log had been cat-a-cornered from its bed, the chain was fastened around one end by means of the ever-useful steel swamp-hook, and it was yanked across the dray.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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