mud hook

Example Sentences

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A little tramp steamer, her name roughly painted out, chugged into the harbor, noisily dropped her mud hook.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Eleyne's anchor chain was intact, and that great old mud hook was still down, a hundred pounds of iron with spear-shaped flukes wide as a shovel.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Get your mud hook up and be ready to throw a line to the schooner as she goes by.”

From Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water by Barbour, Ralph Henry

And the old mud hook lies there to this day.

From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)

When the skipper has struck the exact center, he 121 throws over his mud hook and lets his sail run.

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell