can hook

English

Noun

can hook (plural can hooks)

1. A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “can hook”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)