stone-hooker

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a vessel employed in hooking and transporting stones for ballast.

See: hooker ((1))(def. 2)

Quotations

1890

[He] had taken passage on a stone-hooker for Oswego.

1924

. . . a still sadder misfortune befell Mrs. Johnstone, whose two sons were running a stone-hooker out of Port Credit in the fall of 1862.

1945

In May, 1848, the firm was supplying a new centreboard, and "fixing the floor for the stone" in a little vessel--probably a "stone-hooker."