Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a piece of timber placed across the stem to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast-hook. See cut under
stem .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A piece of
timber placed across thestern , to unite thebows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
Etymologies
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fore- + hook
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Examples
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In the extreme end of the forecastle, above what is called the forehook, was a locker to keep the beef, duff (pudding) and sugar kids, bread barge and other small stores, such as tea, sugar, coffee, etc.
The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892
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If he possessed a chest he sat on that, and his knees served him as a table; if he had no chest, then he sat on the floor or on the forehook, i.e., a beam which stretches across the bows.
The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892
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