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A tjalk-like fishing vessel, sometimes rigged as a barquentine. So called because it fished with hook gear. Later also used as a merchant ship. See also "Eenmasthoeker" (One-mast hooker), "Boston Irish hooker," and "Galway hooker."
For more information on hooker, see viewtopic.php?t=18829.
Nederlande 2025; 1,0.
Source: https://www.encyclo.nl/begrip/hoeker.