billhook

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There was an interval of shouting and confusion, the first engineer and the crew leaning over the sides fending off the boat with the stumps of the oars and with long boathooks.

From Vandover and the Brute by Norris, Frank

"Here, Rosebud, unlock the boathouse, and bring out six oars, the biggest ones, and all the boathooks you can find," said Levi, as he looked the boat over.

From Brother Against Brother The War on the Border by Optic, Oliver

From one to the other, with boathooks and paddle, we crept past the outer wings of their balanced rudders till we reached the landing place.

From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by Morrison, George Ernest

The sailors leap up and hold her with loud cries, and get out iron-shod poles and sharp-pointed boathooks, and pick up their broken oars out of the eddies.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

"Clingman and Wales, jump on the raft with the boathooks, and crowd the stuff over to the starboard side," said the captain when he had found the place he wanted.

From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.