A hook, a crook; esp. ‘a stick with a hook at the end of it, to pull down the boughs of a tree, to draw weeds out of ditches,’ etc. (Forby).
A hooked stick used to pull down the branches of trees when gathering nuts. Also figurative. Now rare.
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