throw-crook

English

Noun

throw-crook (plural throw-crooks)

1. (archaic, agriculture) A tool for twisting ropes out of straw.

   Synonym: throw hook

   • 1851, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm‎^[1]:

     two persons are engaged in the making of one rope with the throw-crook; whereas, with the spinner, four persons are only required to make three ropes

References

• “throw-crook”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.