can hook n Cp OED cant-hook pl, north dial 'the fingers.' Hand, fist.
   [1894 BURKE] 78 [jest:] 'The plate Miss,' shouted Harry, shoving out his canhooks for the ten cents. [1929] 1933 GREENLEAF (ed) 161 "Maurice Kelly": By this time old Kelly was feeling half sober; / The ghost left and right his two can-hooks did fly.

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