ice hookn.
/ˈʌɪs hʊk/, U.S. /ˈaɪs ˌhʊk/ 1.
a. A hook which can be attached securely to ice (in modern use, frequently in Mountaineering); spec. = ice anchor n. at ice n. Compounds 8; (also) a similar device used on a sledge. Also in extended use.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > grapnel > for holding on to ice-floe
ice hook1694
ice anchor1748
1694 tr. F. Martens in Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. 39 Where there is pretty large Ice-fields, they joyn their Ships to them with great Ice-hooks, fastned to strong Cables.
1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 41 (note) With an Ice-Hook, which is an iron shaped like an S.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 169/2 The [walrus's] tusks must be a great help as ice-hooks or grapplings in assisting the animal to climb upon the ice from the sea.
1885 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 17 85 Drawing the line and hook up he passed it around the place he had prepared for it, and, cutting another place for his ice-hook, was now ready for the Panther to swing round under the lee of the berg.
1946 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 35 265/2 They put up ice hooks and used them for posts to tie their kayaks to.
1993 Canad. Geographic Nov. 65/2 You employ a range of implements—ice screws, ice axes, ice hooks, crampons, carabiners—several of which would double nicely as combat weapons.
2000 N. E. Goldstein God at Edge vii. 147 We had turned..the sleds on their sides and secured their ice hooks (anchors) into the frozen snow.
b. A hook employed in securing and hoisting or dragging ice, esp. for storage. Now chiefly historical.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > hook
hookc900
haspedec1400
cleek1426
cleek-staffc1440
cramp1503
hock1530
gib-crook1564
cramp-iron1565
gib1567
cramper1598
bench hook1619
crampon1660
wall-hook1681
dressing hook1683
woodcock-eye1796
doghook1821
click1846
clipper1849
ice hook1853
witchetty1862
slip-hook1863
snap-hook1875
clip-hook1882
pelican1890
snake hook1944
1853 Fraser's Mag. Jan. 111/2 Up this plain the great blocks are jerked by the ice-man, who wields his ice-hook with great dexterity.
1913 Virginia Law Rev. 1 175 An employee whose duty it was to keep passenger cars, local and interstate, supplied with ice, while attempting to lift a block of ice, was injured, owing to the failure of the carrier to supply proper ice hooks.
1936 E. Pyle in D. Nichols Ernie's Amer. (1990) 153 A steam derrick with an ice hook on the end of a cable was lifting immense redwood logs off a a pile.
2009 T. K. Groft et al. Hudson River Panorama 80 Snowplows or scrapers removed the snow; ice markers, cutters, and saws cut the ice; and ice hooks, chisels, and hoisting tongs moved it.
2. A type of boat hook used to push large floating sections of ice away from a ship. Cf. ice pole n. at ice n. Compounds 8. Now historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > other equipment
rack1691
ice hook1694
searcher1775
fumigation-lamp1815
mete-stick1815
boat axe1820
devil's claw1833
telegraph1842
boat slide1854
anchor ball1858
umbrella warping1867
anchor ball1942
coffee grinder1952
1694 tr. F. Martens in Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. 40 The Seamen hinder the pressing on of the Ice as much as in them lieth, with great Ice-hooks.
1774 C. J. Phipps Voy. N. Pole 40 I divided the people into gangs under the midshipmen, and stationed them to the ice hooks, poles, crabs.
1874 L. Mercier tr. K. Koldewey et al. German Arctic Exped. 1869–70 I. iii. 71 For the first time we had to employ the long ice-hooks to push aside those [floes] lying directly under our bow.
2006 Amer. Hist. Aug. 52 Tools included..splitting chisels to separate sheets into blocks, bar chisels to loosen and trim cakes, [and] ice hooks to pull or push the floating ice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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