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CAN-HOOKS
CAN-HOOKS, an instrument used to sling a cask by the ends of the staves: it is formed by fixing a broad and flat hook at each end of a short rope, and the tackle, by which the cask so slung may be hoisted or lowered, is hooked to the middle of the rope. See plate II. fig. 8. The can-hooks, commonly used ashore by brewers, &c. are all iron, the middle part being fitted with a chain in the place of a rope.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 61, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0261.html