Boathook

Origin

boat + hook

Full definition of boathook

Noun

1. A hook attached to a pole in order to move floating boats.
• 2007, March 11, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, After that, Hanukkah curled up on the steps of the mosque and withdrew into sleep and his dream of Sarah, of the faint smell of burning sandalwood when she took his head into her lap, a dream from which Amram’s horny toe now dislodged him with all the tenderness of a boathook.