ravehook

9.9

A hooked hand tool for cleaning boat seams before caulking

noun

Archaic

: ganchillo

Using a ravehook, she carefully cleared out old material before packing new oakum.

Examples

The shipwright selected a ravehook from his toolbox to start working on the boat's seams.
A good ravehook makes the caulking process much easier for traditional wooden boats.
He used a ravehook to prepare the boat's seams.
The carpenter sharpened his ravehook before starting the work.
A good ravehook makes the caulking process much easier for traditional wooden boats.
The shipwright selected a ravehook from his toolbox to start working on the boat's seams.
Using a ravehook, she carefully cleared out old material before packing new oakum.

Surface Forms

ravehook singular

ravehooks plural

Morphology

ravehook = rave + hook (semi-transparent) = rave + hook

The element 'hook' signals the tool shape, but 'rave' is an uncommon or obscure element in this boatbuilding sense, so the full meaning is only partially predictable.

Etymology

The word ravehook comes from two parts, rave and hook, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of rave as an old word meaning 'to pull or open'. So a ravehook is a hooked tool used to pull out and open the seams of a wooden boat to prepare them for caulking.