throw-crook
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]throw-crook (plural throw-crooks)
- (archaic, agriculture) A tool for twisting ropes out of straw.
- Synonym: throw hook
- 1851, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm[1]:
- two persons are engaged in the making of one rope with the throw-crook; whereas, with the spinner, four persons are only required to make three ropes
References
[edit]- “throw-crook”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.