cant dog

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cant dog - a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs

dog hook, peavey, peavy

cant hook - a peavey having a hook instead of a spike; used for handling logs

lever - a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum

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Peavey returned to his blacksmith shop and directed his son to make a rigid clasp to encircle the cant dog handle with the hook on one side.

Sometime after Hale's successful test of the new cant dog, the story goes, Joseph Peavey made a drawing of his tool and set out on foot for Bangor and the post office meaning to send for a patent on the device.