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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)play

  Familiarity information: BENCH HOOK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BENCH HOOK (noun)


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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