tend hook

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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direct the hooking up of logs for ground-lead or high-line skidding, usually a foreman's responsibility.

Quotations

1908

. . . I was tending hook there. . . .

1918

I can "team" or "tend de hook,"/I can "bark" or "fall" or "buck". . . .

1942

Dann's tending hook and Jerry's slinging rigging for him.