boathook

boathook

See also: boat-hook and boat hook

English

a boathook

Etymology

boat +‎ hook

Noun

boathook (plural boathooks)

1. A hook attached to a pole used for pulling or pushing boats, rafts, logs or other objects to or from the side of a boat.
   • 2007 March 11, Michael Chabon, “Gentlemen of the Road”, in New York Times‎:

     After that, Hanukkah curled up on the steps of the mosque and withdrew into sleep and his dream of Sarah, of the faint smell of burning sandalwood when she took his head into her lap, a dream from which Amram’s horny toe now dislodged him with all the tenderness of a boathook.

   Synonyms: setting-pole, gaff, setter, pole-hook, hitcher

2. (by extension) A pole or rod with such a hook at one end.

Translations

hook attached to a pole to push out or pull in things — See also translations at setting pole

Amharic: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: баго́р m (bahór) Bulgarian: ка̀нджа (bg) f (kàndža) Catalan: bitxero m, gafa f Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: bådshage c Dutch: bootshaak m Estonian: pootshaak French: harpin (fr) m, gaffe (fr) f Galician: bicheiro (gl) m German: Bootshaken m, Boothaken m Greek: please add this translation if you can Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: csáklya (hu) Italian: mezzomarinaro m, gaffa (it) f, alighiero m

Kashubian: bąsôk m Norwegian: Bokmål: båtshake m Nynorsk: båtshake m Polish: osęka f, osęk m, bosak (pl) m Portuguese: bicheiro (pt) m Romanian: cange (ro) f Russian: о́чеп (ru) m (óčep), очепо́к m (očepók) (Ukraine, South Russia), баго́р (ru) m (bagór), баго́р-отпо́рник m (bagór-otpórnik), шлю́почный крюк m (šljúpočnyj krjuk), отпо́рный крюк m (otpórnyj krjuk) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ча̏кља f Latin: čȁklja (sh) f Spanish: bichero (es) m Swedish: båtshake (sv) c Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: оче́па f (očépa), баго́р (uk) m (bahór)