bench hook

1. 1.

   any of various stops on a workbench against which work can be pushed (as while chiseling or planing)

   Broadercatch

Questions about bench hook

What does bench hook mean?

bench hook means "any of various stops on a workbench against which work can be pushed (as while chiseling or planing)".

Is bench hook a common word?

bench hook is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.