A pelican hook is a piece of nautical rigging hardware It is composed of a hinged link held closed by a circumferential link capable of being released...

Pelicans (genus Pelecanus) are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterized by a long beak and a large throat...

lighter and easier to manage than other types of chain stoppers, such as a pelican hook. After hoisting the anchor and setting the windlass brake, the claw is...

The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a bird of the pelican family, Pelecanidae, one of three species found in the Americas and one of two that...

The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller by John Grisham, published in 1992 by Doubleday. It is his third novel after A Time to Kill and The Firm...

Spazzys/Dazes/Mach Pelican Hook up Bikini Girls 4 way split with:The Wimpy's(Japan)/Mach Pelican/Surfin' Lungs(UK)/The Manges(Italy) Smugglers/Mach Pelican 5 track...

ocean (e.g. pelagic fishing, pelagic sealing). pelican hook A hook with a hinge in the curve of the hook, normally held closed by a metal ring that keeps...

sink and was pulling our old "Green Dragon" down by the stern. We had a pelican hook rigged and a sailor hit the release and the Barry slipped from our grasp...

Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), and part of the Everglades Headwaters NWR complex, located...

modernist novel, The Double Hook." The Canadian Encyclopedia declares that: "Publication of Watson's novel The Double Hook (1959) marks the start of contemporary...