boat-hook

Cloudesley sounded with a boat-hook along the outside.

SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

The best I could do would be to take a boat-hook and shove you down out of sight.

SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

“I shall remove his reproductive organs with a rusty boat-hook.”

Should you use jargon in your Focus leaflets? Alix Mortimer 2009

• Liberal Democrat jargon – If I hear another Lib Dem councillor refer to something in his ward as “on my patch”, I shall remove his reproductive organs with a rusty boat-hook.

Should you use jargon in your Focus leaflets? Alix Mortimer 2009

Lord Salisbury, British prime minister and foreign secretary in the last years of the 19th century, famously defined foreign policy as the art of drifting? lazily down a stream occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.?

What?s Different About the Obama Foreign Policy? Eliot Cohen 2009

• Liberal Democrat jargon – If I hear another Lib Dem councillor refer to something in his ward as “on my patch”, I shall remove his reproductive organs with a rusty boat-hook.

Could local be the new British? Alix Mortimer 2009

Then he made a running bowline, and slipped the loop on to the shaft of the boat-hook, after which he held out the boat-hook, after the fashion of a fishing-rod, over the place where

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 2007

This we did, after which he made fast a piece of salt meat to a bit of spun yarn, and bent this on to the boat-hook.

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 2007

But, like a good many other people, the more he tried to think the less he could think; and Tom saw him blundering about all day, till the coast-guardsmen saw his big fin above the water, and rowed out, and struck a boat-hook into him, and took him away.

The Water Babies 2007

No one had the energy to hold on to the rope, or hold the boat-hook to keep us close to her, so at last I did it myself, Richard laughing all the while at their supineness, and at my making myself so officious and energetic.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006