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tend hook Lumbering

• direct the hooking up of logs for ground-lead or high-line skidding, usually a foreman's responsibility.

  See also: hooktender  

  • 1908  . . . I was tending hook there. . . .
  • 1918  I can "team" or "tend de hook,"/I can "bark" or "fall" or "buck". . . .
  • 1942  Dann's tending hook and Jerry's slinging rigging for him.