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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1958 quote.
Quotations
1919
There are very few railroad camps in this neck of the jungles which do not boast of having the best yarding engineer that ever took the slack out of a bull-hook.
1958
Bull hook--a. An old time heavy, open choker hook. Not satisfactory, chokers were always falling out. b. A skidding hook used on skylines. c. A big hook once used on the butt rigging in some skyline systems.