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BENCH HOOK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bench hook mean?
• BENCH HOOK (noun)
The noun BENCH HOOK has 1 sense:
1. any of various stops on a workbench against which work can be pushed (as while chiseling or planing)
Familiarity information: BENCH HOOK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various stops on a workbench against which work can be pushed (as while chiseling or planing)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bench hook" is a kind of...):
catch; stop (a restraint that checks the motion of something)
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