Associations to the word «Boathook»

Wiktionary

BOATHOOK, noun. 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.
BOATHOOK, noun. (by extension) a pole or rod which such a hook at one end

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope