DCHP-3

hooker ((1))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Lumbering

See hooktender.

Quotations

1919
There are innumerable firms that have monopolized the services of the best hooker that ever gave signals for the high-rigger, while his short-handed crew changed the haul-back without the assistance of a grass-line.
1960
We invite enquiries from Hookers & Riggers, Head Loaders, Yarder Engineers, etc., who are available now. Call Don Stevenson at B. C. Forest Products. . . .
2n.

a vessel employed in hooking and transporting stones for ballast.

Quotations

1934
Sometime after Halifax was founded, Bedford Basin was frequently visited by hookers, whose crews came to these shores to "hook" stones for ballast. . . .