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cant hook

noun as in claw

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A landing is built of cribwork and the logs are simply rolled on the truck with peavies or cant hooks, or a parbuckle system with skids and horses is used.

Theirs was talk of cant hooks and spike poles, calipers and rafts.

Going up against the current, only poles and cant hooks—tedious going.

After my first rice tafel I dreamed I was a log jam and that lumber jacks with cant hooks were trying to pry me apart.

A moment more, and Ba'tiste, with a sudden exclamation, allowed his cant hook to drop to the ground.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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