Definition of "boathook" [boathook]

• A hook attached to a pole in order to move floating boats. (noun)

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• "Jack put the twenty-five-horse outboard hard into reverse and my father and I each held a boathook, straining to see the rocks below the breakers."
• "For no apparent reason I had decided when packing my boat that a long-handled boathook might be useful in the mid-Atlantic, and now its moment had come."
• "So I drilled two holes through these softer sections and used cable ties to secure the boathook to the back of the spoon."