throw-crook

noun

throw-crook

noun

1

Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle Archaic A tool for twisting ropes out of straw.

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 ropes1851, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm:

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