The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Dog

Shipbuilding

An iron implement used by shipwrights, having a fang at one or sometimes at each end, to be driven into any piece for supporting it while hewing, etc. Another sort has a fang in one end and an eye in the other in which a rope may be fastened and used to haul anything along.

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