weed hook

English

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Etymology

From Old English wēodhōc.

Noun

weed hook (plural weed hooks)

  1. A gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.
    Synonym: weeding hook
    • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] 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

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