Shark Hook

We tried to catch some, and one was soon hooked; it required half-a-dozen hands to haul him up the river, and the shark-hook straightened, and he got away. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We caught three or four heavy and voracious ones with a shark-hook while lying at anchor. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)

Accordingly a bit of pork was secured from the galley stores and placed on the shark-hook, a huge affair as big as the hook used to hang meat on in butcher shops. ❋ John Henry Goldfrap (1898)

Little Wilkins uttered something like a war-whoop as he leaped up and assisted Jack to get out the shark-hook. ❋ Unknown (1859)

With shark-hook and line I succeeded, and brought my brave gentleman to the deck. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

"A doan b'lieve, Massa Brace, we hab got nebba such a ting as a shark-hook 'board de _Cat'maran_." ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

"I must try our shark-hook," observed Dick, putting on a large bait, and fastening it to the end of a thick rope. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The shark-hook was baited with a piece of bull's hide, and the animal, who was still working up and down alongside the ship, hoping that he would still pick up a marine I presume, took the bait greedily, and was hauled on board. ❋ Frank Marryat (1840)

In the meantime we set the shark-hook, but it availed us naught: a cayman came and took it, but would not swallow it. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

Seeing it was useless to attend the shark-hook any longer, we left it for the night and returned to our hammocks. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

In the morning, as usual, we found the bait gone from the shark-hook. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

One end of the new rope I had bought in town was reeved through the chain of the shark-hook and the other end fastened to a tree on the sandbank. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

We now baited a shark-hook with a large fish, and put it upon a board about ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

There's a big shark under the counter, so get out the shark-hook, ask the cook for a piece of good fat pork, and muster the watch aft in readiness to haul him inboard, in case we can coax him into swallowing the bait. " ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)