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foothook

foothook is the alternative form of futtock.

Meaning of futtock

Noun

futtock (plural futtocks)

  1. Any of the curved rib-like timbers that form the frame of a wooden ship.
    • The timbers (called also frames, or floors, first, second and third futtocks, where the lengths of the frames are in two, three, or more pieces) will be "double," that is, two timbers will be placed close together, or nearly close together, and act as one frame.1884, Dixon Kemp, A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing (Fourth Edition), page 12

Forms of foothook

pluralfoothooks

Origin of foothook

From futtock, reinterpreted as foot + hook.

Questions about foothook

What is foothook the alternative form of?
Foothook is the alternative form of futtock.

Words near foothook in the dictionary

  1. footholder
  2. footholders
  3. footholds
  4. foothole
  5. footholes
  6. foothook
  7. foothooks
  8. foothot
  9. footie
  10. footies
  11. footin'

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foothook (page history and authors); futtock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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