DCHP-3

couteau croche

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a wood-working knife usually having a crooked handle and, often, a hook at one end of the blade, used widely in the north, especially by the Indians, for making snowshoes, fur stretchers, canoes, and all woodwork. See crooked knife and picture.

Quotations

1789
I make traines, bend snow-shoe frames, and with perseverance, I'll perhaps learn to handle the couteau croche.
1932
Flett was one of the cleverest workers with the "couteau croche" or crooked knife (very like a saddler's knife) I have ever seen.