And within were hookes] Or, end-irons, or, the two hearth-stones. To hang the slaine beast on while they slayed him: The word in the Originall that signifieth Hookes, is of the duall number, for that two hookes were made upon one stem, an hand breadth one from another, and thse were knocked up in the wall at a convenient distance each from other, that if need were, the two tangs of one hook might hold two severall beasts legs upon them.