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cant hook

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1848, OED Evaluation: U.S.

A form of lever for canting over or turning timber, etc., consisting of a wooden bar with an iron catch or hooked arm near its lower end which passes over the log, grips it, and so affords a hold by which it may be pulled over; called also cant-dog.

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Speaker: ... we didn't have a log loader on the truck so you'd- you get a side hill, you'd pile the logs on side hill and dig a hole so that the truck would be level and- cant- cant hook them, cant lever them onto the- onto the- Interviewer: Can't do which? Speaker: C-- ah, cant hook. ... Cant hook indeed. ... Cant hook is a- is a- ... A cant hook has a handle like that and then has a- a- a- a steel thing that goes around like that with it.
A form of lever for canting over or turning timber, etc., consisting of a wooden bar with an iron catch or hooked arm near its lower end which passes over the log, grips it, and so affords a hold by which it may be pulled over.