This man, having laid aside his oars, now stood, boathook in hand, awaiting the inevitable crash.
He succeeded in doing this in the nick of time, for when he was in the very act of pushing the boat clear of the wharf by means of a long boathook, Ling gained the shore and snatched the boathook from his hand.
Get up in the bow with you, Jimmy, quick now, and take the boathook along!
Then he hurried to gain a position near the bow of the boat, where he crouched, after making sure of his footing, so as to guard against a shock when he clapped the boathook into the clothing of the drowning man.
Then the boathook was brought into use again to push off; and a minute or two later they were chugging along down-stream, heading once more toward the middle of the broadening river.
Jack did not mean to lose that life preserver, and he had Jimmy get it with the boathookas they passed by.
Leaning outwards to the full extent of his left arm, the Sub made a futile attempt with the boathook to reach the sailor.
As he did so came the unmistakable sound of a boathook engaging the little craft's rigging screws, and a peremptory voice hailed in German.
Mark bitterly, as he saw Dance still hacking at the cable, and the boat pulled alongside, while the bow man threw in his oar, and seized a boathook as he rose in his place.
The mission of this cutter was almost an exact repetition of the one in which Mark took part, Bob Howlett having the luck to seize the second drowning man, over whose body the boathook had slipped.
Now, as the crew resumed their places, and tried to keep the oars and boathook alongside the keel, he turned to the lieutenant.
I'm lighter, and I think I could get hold of the side with the boathook as soon as I am on the keel.
His men alongside evinced lively signs of uneasiness in the silent, gruesome creek, and they held the launch off at the length of a boathook as if afraid of closer contact.
Leyden called back a clear, exultant greeting to the girl, and the next moment his launch ran alongside the Barang and her bowman made his boathook fast.
Got her, sir," shouted one of the seamen, as he deftly engaged the head of the boathook in the metal rung of the nun-buoy.
As night came on a lantern was lighted and exhibited from a boathook set upright through one of the thwarts.
The bow leaned his weight behind the boathook against the ship's side, and the bows of the galley sheered off slowly.
India-rubber Man from the stern, adding in lower tones, "Boathook up forward.
We were playing about with it mit boathookfor nearly a quarter-of-an-hour, and suddenly old Mouldy Jakes put up his head and sniffed about a bit and muttered 'Baccy.
A brandy-flask comes from somewhere in the steerage, where a mop and a tin pot and a boathook live, and its effect is good.
If they get too close to you I'll boathook them and pull them off!
Harry threw the boathook and it caught fast in the steam launch's stern.
But the fellow who carried the boathook was long of leg and fresh of wind; while Jack was still a dozen yards in his rear, he gained the jungle and disappeared.
The boathook was their only means of propelling the canoe.
Instead, he drew off, and with all his strength drove the iron point of the boathook through the cutter's side below the water-line.
Close under the cutter's quarter lay a canoe, and in the canoe there stood erect a native, with what appeared to be a boathook poised above his head.
It was immediately wanted, of course, but the man with the boathook could not get it and keep a hold of the boat, too; so another man jumped in and brought up a pocket-handkerchief.
A seaman aft, jumping for a boathook in one of the quarter-boats, sprang into the little ledge of the main chains.
There was a boathook against the wall and he picked it up, and went down the steps into the small dinghy.
Once, as he headed obliquely across the river, boathook in hand, a black invisible police-boat shot surprisingly across his bows.
An examination revealed that the skylight could be opened from the deck and further that a boathook was handy.
These facts ascertained, a watch was kept until the occupant of the pantry had gone out for a moment, the skylight was quickly opened, the boathook manipulated and the piece of beef lifted to the deck.
Harry threw the boathook and it caught fast in the steam launch’s stern.
If they get too close to you I’ll boathook them and pull them off!
They went on, keeping, so far as they could judge, midway between reef and beach, but after a time the lead showed shoaling water and Jake used the boathook instead.
For half an hour they laboriously poled her with a long oar and the boathook between the banks of mire.
Then Jake's boathook sank a foot or two deeper and finding the depth as good after a few vigorous pushes, they started the engine.
Fixing the boathook into a convenient indentation of the rock, I gradually pulled myself in till I reached the face of the wall.
The tide fell rapidly; bushes of undergrowth scraped the boat's side, and then Mayle's boathook went down and touched no bottom.
Accordingly they took their oars and pulled in and out amongst the trees, while Cullen Mayle sounded with the boathook for a greater depth of water.
I got to look out,' said the cool scout to himself, 'or I'll get that boathook on my nut yet.
When Orme again leaped to the gunwale, the Japanese was using the boathook to push the craft apart.
His apparent indifference vanished, and with a cat-like pounce, he seized the boathook and snatched it from Orme's grasp.
His intention was to use the boathook to bring the Japanese to terms.
Porter had been standing close by, the boathook in his hands.
Harry, "I ought to be pounded with the boathook if I'd meant them.
He sent the boathook down through the water again till the end struck heavily on the bottom, and sent forth a dull, ringing sound.
Geoff looked over the side and peered into the water; then he took a boathook and thrust it downward till it struck the bottom of the swamp close beside them.
But the startling thing was that he had picked up the boathook and was twirling it unconcernedly.
The point of the boathook wavered, aimed first at the nonapus, then at the fishman.
They pushed and pushed and pushed again, but the only noticeable effect was the bending of the slender pole of the boathook on which Grace and Amy were shoving with all their strength.
Thus cried Mollie, who stood at the bow of the Gem with a boathookin her grasp, while the motor craft approached the rude raft on which lay the body of an unconscious youth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boathook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
