Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a rope six or eight fathoms long, with a hook and thimble spliced at one end, and whipped at the other, used in dragging chain cables out of the lockers, etc.
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Examples
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In the end there came a series of twitches at the hook-rope.
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For some time we tried the hook-rope and other means of scaling it, but without success, -- that is, without perfect success.
A Tramp Abroad 1879
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He took to his crutches, and I ordered the hook-rope to be laid aside.
A Tramp Abroad 1879
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He took to his crutches, and I ordered the hook-rope to be laid aside.
A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06 Mark Twain 1872
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For some time we tried the hook-rope and other means of scaling it, but without success -- that is, without perfect success.
A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06 Mark Twain 1872
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