seal hook

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a hook set on a line for catching seals.

Quotations

1864

[The two women started off, each with dog and hook, to hunt for seal igloos.]

1958

They had [a] seal line . . . and [a] seal hook on [the] end.

1964

The practice of setting out lines with seal hooks will be prohibited.