Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In hydraulic engineering, a long pole with an iron hook at the end, used in making and handling mats for jetty-work.
  • noun A falsified form of mattock.

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  • We cannot drive them back to the spinning wheel and the mathook, for they will not go.

    In Times Like These 1915

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