English Dictionary

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

He used the boathook to pull the boat closer to the dock.

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.