weed hook
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English wēodhōc
Noun[edit]
weed hook (plural weed hooks)
- A gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.
- Synonym: weeding hook
- 1557 February 13, 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
References[edit]
- “weed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.