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POLE HOOK

Specialty Definition: POLE HOOK

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Food & Agriculture

An iron hook with a straight prong at its hinder part, fixed to a long pole. With its help a boat is either pulled to, or pushed from, any place or is capable of holding on to another object. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: POLE HOOK

Language Translations for "POLE HOOK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

bådshage (boat hook). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

pikhaak (boat hook, clip, floating hook, pick, pike pole, wire tool), bootshaak (boat hook). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

venekeksi (boat hook), venehaka (boat hook), keksi (biscuit, boat-hook, cracker). (various references)

   

French

  

gaffe (barge pole). (various references)

   

German

  

Schiffshaken (boat hook), Bootshaken (boathook). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοντάρι λέμβου (boat hook). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mezzo marinaio (boat hook), gancio d'accosto (boat hook), gaffa (boat hook), alighiero (boat hook). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olepay ookhay

   

Portuguese

  

croque (boat hook). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bichero (barge pole, boat hook, punt pole). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: POLE HOOK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-k-l-o-o-o-p"

-2 letters: hoopoe.

-4 letters: helo, help, hoke, hole, holk, holp, hook, hoop, hope, kelp, koel, kohl, kolo, koph, look, loop, lope, okeh, oleo, poke, pole, polo, pooh, pool.

-5 letters: elk, hep, hoe, hop, kep, kop, lek, loo, lop, oho, oke, ole, ooh, ope, peh, poh, pol.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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