Lexicographical Neighbors of Canthook
Literary usage of Canthook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests by Guy Montrose Whipple (1915)
"Bokhara—name of a place in Austria. cantilever—a bar with a hook in one end by
which lumbermen roll logs (canthook). catalepsy—a form of disorder of the ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Since earliest boyhood some of these men had swung an axe, or drawn one end of
a crosscut saw; others were proficient in the consummate art of the canthook ..."
3. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1907)
"... planing mills and twenty miscellaneous woodworking establishments, the latter
manufacturing canthook, rake, broom and brush handles, last blocks, etc. ..."
4. Highways and Byways of the Mississippi Valley by Clifton Johnson (1913)
"Here and there on the bank was a man armed with a pole and canthook, standing
guard, ready to act if the logs showed an inclination to form a jam. ..."
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