English Dictionary

boathook

名詞

広義

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. / (by extension) A pole or rod with such a hook at one end.

日本語の意味

船や筏、丸太などを船の側から引いたり押したりするために、棒に取り付けられたフック。 / そのようなフックが片端に付いた棒または杖としての意味。

She used the boathook to pull the dinghy alongside the dock.

彼女は桟橋の横に小型ボートを寄せるために、先端にフックが付いた棒を使った。

意味（1）

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.

After that, Hanukkah curled up on the steps of the mosque and withdrew into sleep and his dream of Sarah, of the faint smell of burning sandalwood when she took his head into her lap, a dream from which Amram’s horny toe now dislodged him with all the tenderness of a boathook.

意味（2）

(by extension) A pole or rod with such a hook at one end.

boathooks （ plural ）