What is "boathook"

Usage examples of "boathook".

Its cover had been thrown back, and tins of biscuit, bailers, boathooks and extra rowlocks were jumbled together in confusion.

Men with boathooks were stationed in the longboats, to cut a passage clear.

With a deafening din of metal on metal, a muscular smith worked at a small forge on deck, straightening blades of swords, cutlasses, boarding pikes and the like, restoring proper curve to the hooks of grapnels and boathooks and speedily fashioning odds and ends of needed hardware from bits of scrap metal.

A British oath from the deck of the ship went out to meet a fine French explosion of profanity from the boat, both forestalling the splash of the tangled rope into the water under the bows of the ship, and a full ten yards out of the reach of the man who stood, boathook in hand, ready to catch it.

This man, having laid aside his oars, now stood, boathook in hand, awaiting the inevitable crash.

The boatman was preparing to hold on and fend off at the same moment - a sudden gust of wind gave the boat a sharp buffet just as the man grappled the mizzen-chains - he overbalanced himself, fell, and recovered himself, but only to be jerked backwards into the water by the boathook, which struck him in the chest.

He just hurled what he could get his hands on - an oar, a boathook, a cushion, two life preservers, a lead squid used for mackerel trolling, the brass cover off the compass binnacle.

Her attempts with the boathook had so far dredged up some scrap metal.

She held the boathook to one hand and skipped down to the well to toss the portside tie over for Mira to hold while Del boarded—.