weed hook

noun

noun

Etymology From Old English wēodhōc.

A gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.

In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove, And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love1557 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:

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