Definition of "ravehook" in English

noun

1. (historical) A hooked hand tool for widening the seams of a boat to receive oakum.

   • 2012, J. E. Fender, The Lucifer Cypher Small fires […] smoldered in half a dozen places, where the few workmen paying oakum into Hampshires hull seams with ravehooks' would periodically repair to warm themselves.
   • 2014, Laura London, The Windflower But the ship's carpenter had cut his hand open on a ravehook while cleaning out some old caulking on the fo'c'sle, and Cat stayed aloft to attend him.