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ravehooks

ravehooks is the plural of ravehook.

Meaning of ravehook

Noun

ravehook (plural ravehooks)

  1. (historical) 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

Questions about ravehooks

What is ravehooks the plural of?
Ravehooks is the plural of ravehook.

Words near ravehooks in the dictionary

  1. rave-up
  2. rave-ups
  3. RAVEC
  4. raved
  5. ravehook
  6. ravehooks
  7. ravel
  8. ravel bread
  9. ravel breads
  10. ravel out
  11. ravelable

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