FLOATING HOOK

  

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FLOATING HOOK

Specialty Definition: FLOATING HOOK

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A pole, 10 to 20ft(3 to 6m)long, ending in a steel point(the pike)and a hook or spur(termed a gaff), which is used in handling floating timber. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: FLOATING HOOK

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

Danish

  

flådningshage (clip, pike pole). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

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

   

Finnish

  

uittohaka (clip, pike pole), tukkihaka (clip, pike pole), keksi (biscuit, boat-hook, cracker). (various references)

   

French

  

gaffe. (various references)

   

German

  

Floßhaken (clip, pike pole). (various references)

   

Italian

  

arpione (harpoon, hinge, hook). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oatingflay ookhay

   

Portuguese

  

fisga (gaff), arpão (creeper, gaff, gig). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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

   

Swedish

  

flottningshake (clip, pike pole). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FLOATING HOOK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-g-h-i-k-l-n-o-o-o-t"

-4 letters: fanlight, floating, footling, hooligan, loathing, oogonial.

-5 letters: antilog, fatling, flaking, flokati, foaling, fooling, footing, hafting, haloing, halting, holking, hoofing, hooking, hooting, kiloton, lathing, loafing, lofting, looking, looting, oogonia, talking, tholing, tooling.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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