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
And the old mud hook lies there to this day.
From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
Just at Dark we droped our mud hook in just 45 fathoms of water in the entrence of the Straights of Magellan.
From The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898 by R. Cross
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 Ralph Henry Barbour
