draught-hooks

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DRAUGHT-HOOKS, noun Large hooks of iron fixed on the cheeks of a cannon carriage, two on each side, one near the trunnion hole, and the other at the train; used in drawing the gun backwards and forwards by means of draught ropes.
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