forehook

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ hook.

Noun

forehook (plural forehooks)

1. (nautical) A piece of timber placed across the stern, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “forehook”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)