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Koogu (Kook)

Hook, but comes in different varieties, usually a retaining- or lifting-device such as an S-shaped pothook, ahjukook (for ovens) or pajakook (for smithies), a bucket pole, kaevukook (well hook, for drawing water from wells) but also, when singular, kaelkook (neck hook), a hobble for horses (forked branch between neck and hind leg) or, when plural kaelkoogud (i.e. neck hooks), milkmaid’s shoulder-yoke, carrying-pole, etc. I’m sure there are others…