“Nautical, one of a pair of hooks working on the same axis and fitting closely together: much used about a ship’s rigging. Also clip-hook, clove-hook.” —Whitney, 1889
William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5658
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