cant hook

  • 11cant-hook — …

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  • 12cant dog — n. CANT HOOK …

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  • 13cant dog — noun a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs • Syn: ↑peavey, ↑peavy, ↑dog hook • Hypernyms: ↑lever • Hyponyms: ↑cant hook * * * noun …

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  • 14cant dog — /kant/. See cant hook. * * * …

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  • 15cant dog — noun another term for cant hook …

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  • 16cant — 1. n. & v. n. 1 insincere pious or moral talk. 2 ephemeral or fashionable catchwords. 3 language peculiar to a class, profession, sect, etc.; jargon. v.intr. use cant. Phrases and idioms: canting arms Heraldry arms containing an allusion to the… …

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  • 17hook — /hʊk / (say hook) noun 1. a curved or angular piece of metal or other firm substance catching, pulling, or sustaining something. 2. a fishhook. 3. that which catches; a snare; a trap. 4. something curved or bent like a hook, as a mark or symbol,… …

  • 18cant purchase — noun Etymology: cant (II) : a powerful tackle used to cant a whale in the operation of flensing * * * cant purchase, a tackle having one of its blocks secured to the masthead of a whaler and the other to the hook in the blubber of a dead whale… …

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  • 19hook — Synonyms and related words: L, Long Melford, abstract, acquitted, all the way, allure, anchor, anchorage, and, and sinker, angle, angle off, annex, apex, appropriate, arc, arch, argue into, articulate, backhand, backhander, backstroke, bag, bait …

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  • 20cant — Synonyms and related words: Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, L, Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, about ship, affectation, affectedness, alert, angle, angularity, animate, animated, apex, argot, ascend, babble, back and fill, bank, be… …

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