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stone-hooker Hist. 
n. a vessel employed in hooking and transporting stones for ballast.
See also: hooker ((1)) (def. 2)
- 1890 [He] had taken passage on a stone-hooker for Oswego.
- 1924 (1933) . . . a still sadder misfortune befell Mrs. Johnstone, whose two sons were running a stone-hooker out of Port Credit in the fall of 1862.
- 1945 In May, 1848, the firm was supplying a new centreboard, and "fixing the floor for the stone" in a little vessel--probably a "stone-hooker."
- 1890 [He] had taken passage on a stone-hooker for Oswego.