ˈflesh-hook
1. A hook for removing meat from the pot.
| c 1325 in Rel. Ant. I. 292 Summe notes..arn..kroken a-weyward als a fleshoke. c 1386 Chaucer Sompn. T. 22 Ful hard it is, with fleischhok or with oules To ben y-clawed. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 166/1 Flesche hooke, creagra, fuscina. 1514 Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. Pref. (Percy Soc.) 50 The scullians..Came forth with whittles, some other with fleshhooks. 1611 Bible 2 Chron. iv. 16 The pots also, and the shouels, and the fleshhookes. |
| fig. R. Brathwait Descr. Death in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 271 Earth-turned, mole-eied, flesh-hook, that puls us hence. |
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| 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss., Flesh-hook, an iron hook with a long ‘stail,’ used to pull hides out of the tan-pits. |
3. A hook to hang meat upon; a ‘pot-hook’.
| 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 64 These roguish Arsemetrique gibbets or flesh-hookes, and cyphers, or round oos. 1874 in Knight Dict. Mech. |