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PRONUNCIATION OF CANT HOOK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CANT HOOK

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Cant hook is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CANT HOOK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cant hook

A cant hook is a traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook called a dog at one end, used for handling and moving logs. Unlike the similar peavey, the cant hook has a blunt tip, often bearing teeth.

Definition of cant hook in the English dictionary

The definition of cant hook in the dictionary is a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CANT HOOK

cant
cant dog
Cant.
Cantab.
cantabank
cantabile
Cantabria
Cantabrian
Cantabrian Mountains
Cantabrians
Cantabrigia
Cantabrigian
Cantal
cantala
cantaloup
cantaloupe
cantankerous
cantankerously
cantankerousness
cantata

WORDS THAT END LIKE CANT HOOK

butcher´s hook
crochet hook
curtain hook
dough-hook
fifi hook
fish hook
fish-hook
get the hook
grappling hook
hook
meat hook
off the hook
on one´s own hook
on the hook
pruning hook
reaping hook
shook
skyhook
sling one´s hook
unhook

Synonyms and antonyms of cant hook in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cant hook» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CANT HOOK

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Translator English - Chinese

着钩
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cant hook
570 millions of speakers

English

cant hook
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खिचड़ी भाषा का हुक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير قادر على هوك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

не могу крюк
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gancho hipocrisia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্যান্ট হুক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crochet cant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cant cangkuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wendehaken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カントフック
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

캔트 후크
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cant hook
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

móc không thể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கேக் கொக்கி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कंटन हुक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Can not hook
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gancio sopraelevazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cant hook
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

не можу гак
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cârlig cant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γάντζο περιστροφής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cant haak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vändhake
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cant kroken
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cant hook

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CANT HOOK»

The term «cant hook» is normally little used and occupies the 141.835 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CANT HOOK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cant hook

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANT HOOK»

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1
Design Manual on Basic Wood Harvesting Technology
17. Log. jack. 1. Use To raise the end of a log above the ground for cutting. Material A cant hook, an iron bar 500 x 50 x 1 0 mm. Instructions This tool is made by adapting a standard cant hook. Cut two small pieces about 50 x 50 mm from the ...
‎1989
2
Complete Guide to Building Log Homes
The difference between a peavey and a cant hook is that a peavey has a pointed metal end for jabbing into a log while the cant hook has a slight metal hook on the end instead. Dragging tools. For log dragging or skidding, you'll need a ...
Monte Burch, 2003
3
While the Mississippi and Hudson Merge: A Roman a Clef
Topper rises, the cant hook still in his hand. They stand face to face. The overseer grips his pistol. “Buried dat gal Ula dis mornin',” he says, pausing for a moment to let the magnitude of the message sink in, and then adds, “but her blue-eyed ...
Brandon Astor Jones, 2008
4
Ellis' British Railway Engineering Encyclopaedia
Cant Hook The London Underground (LUL) term for a Rail Turning Bar. Cant Limiting Values The minimum and maximum permissible values of Cant for a given set of conditions. Minimum values include limits on Negative Cant, whilst ...
‎2006
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Commerce on Early American Waterways: The Transport of Goods ...
Then he announced to the crowd, “Build me up some fires along the bank, as we' ll need lots of light to try to get back to shore.” The two brothers walked back over the jam to the key log, Abner with his lantern and cant hook and Brose with his ...
Earl E. Brown, 2010
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Farmers' Bulletin
Figure 20. — Using the peavy to roll logs: A, The safer way; B, rolling logs, toward the logger can be dangerous. which eliminates pinching and sawing into the ground. You can buy a factorymade log jack, or make one from a cant hook.
7
Me N Len: Life in the Haliburton Bush 1900-1940
Your cant-hook men would have short deckin skids, six, seven feet long and at one end of each of them there would be like a dog with three little teeth that you drove into the closest bottom log with the back of your axe, and the other end, ...
Richard Pope, 1985
8
So Ole Says to Lena: Folk Humor of the Upper Midwest
The Irishman 's Cant Hook Albert Mills had a camp on the Chippewa River, and one day one of his teams got stuck. He sent the Irish shanty boy to get a cant hook to help him out. The boy was gone a long time and finally came back driving  ...
James P. Leary, 2001
9
Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy
To "bid" the cant-hook was to twirl it in the hands before taking hold of the log with it — an added mark of skill. The whole expression sometimes had a general meaning of handling the cant-hook skilfully. 24- THE CROW WING DRIVE Another ...
Franz Rickaby, 1993
10
The Heart of Listening, Volume II
Far right: Spbeno- temporal Oral Correction, two views Far Left: Cant Hook Sphenofrontal Release, showing finger placement (technique. finger, so as to compress the vomer; this will effectively move the vomer opposite the way it moves ...
Hugh Milne, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CANT HOOK»

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1
RSU 9's $32.25 million budget moves to referendum vote
... Prentiss of Industry an engraved wooden-handled cant hook from directors. The money for the gift did not come out of the budget, Ward said. «Lewiston Sun Journal, Jun 15»
2
Water back on for more than 100 families in mobile home park
There is no reason why the Park cant hook up to City water, a meter can be hooked up to main supply until meters can be installed on separate ... «KY3, May 15»
3
Artist hand-carving canoe at gallery
He uses a combination of traditional tools, such as the adze (used to cut or shape wood) and a cant hook (used for rolling large logs), as well as ... «Sun Sentinel, Mar 15»
4
Anoka's logging industry: Bygone but not forgotten
... will draw from such materials as a firsthand account about living conditions at a logging camp, historic photos and relics such as a cant hook, ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan 15»
5
Bristol man killed while riding bike
Tennessee Highway Patrol told News 5, 37-year-old Bradley Briggs was riding his bike on Weaver Pike, near Cant Hook Hill. THP says a ... «WCYB, Oct 14»
6
Fibre optic cable installation continues
I am pretty sure that the fibre optic cable was put in all along country road 10 and 12. We cant hook into it tho, because it was put in just for the ... «countylive.ca, Oct 14»
7
Glimpses of the Past: Sept. 15-21
The original Packer Lumberjack Band of the 1920s, complete with drum major swinging a cant hook, is being revived for Saturday's Packer ... «Green Bay Press Gazette, Sep 14»
8
Poor Start for Xbox One Sales in Japan
Still cant play media or anything on it. Cant hook up extra storage devices, Cant do pretty much nothing but gaming and its not to many of those ... «GameSpot, Sep 14»
9
Troop 1 has summer adventure at Scout camp
Then he ran to Jordon who did the log roll with a cant hook. Jordon then tagged Austin who pushed a log through the water with a pole. «Petoskey News-Review, Aug 14»
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In its 29th year, Black Moshannon Summer Festival is on a roll
The brothers from Snow Shoe each dug a cant hook into the ends of the log and attempted to roll it from one checkpoint to the next in the fastest ... «Centre Daily Times, Jul 14»

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