Disagreed: Buddy is right. A cant hook (or cant dog) is a wooden rod
with a hook connected to it, with or without a splay point. The
earliest cant hooks were just a pole with a rigid hook connected to it,
looking a lot like a modern nonmechanical can opener. Later, a eyering
was added making the hook into a 'swing dingle', but it could not be
controlled very well. Joseph Peavey's "improved cant hooks" had a
hinge to keep the swing dingle aligned with the rod, but it was the
addition of a point that made it a peavey. With a point, its a peavey:
without one, its a cant hook, regardless of whether or not it has a
crowfoot at the end.

http://www.ruralheritage.com/logging_camp/peavey.htm

Take it from a Mainer.... :-)

--M