weed hook

English

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Noun

weed hook (plural weed hooks)

  1. A gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.
    • 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: Reprinted for Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
      In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove,
      And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love
    Synonym: weeding hook

References
  • weed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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