ravehook
ravehook noun: a hooked hand tool for widening the seams of a boat to receive oakum.
Noun
ravehook (plural ravehooks)
- A hooked hand tool for widening the seams of a boat to receive oakum.
- Small fires […] smoldered in half a dozen places, where the few workmen paying oakum into Hampshire’s hull seams with ravehooks would periodically repair to warm themselves.2012, J. E. Fender, The Lucifer Cypher
- But the ship's carpenter had cut his hand open on a ravehook while cleaning out some old caulking on the fo'c'sle, and Cat stayed aloft to attend him.2014, Laura London, The Windflower
Forms of ravehook
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Questions about ravehook
- What does ravehook mean?
- Ravehook means a hooked hand tool for widening the seams of a boat to receive oakum.
- What part of speech is ravehook?
- Ravehook is a noun.
- What is the plural of ravehook?
- The plural of ravehook is ravehooks.
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