| 单词 | fagging hook |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfagging hook fagging hook n. (a) a heavy, short-handled tool similar to a sickle but without a serrated edge, used esp. in reaping, a bill hook; cf. fag-hook n. (a) at fag v.4 Compounds; (b) a hooked stick with which stalks of a cereal crop are drawn towards the person harvesting (also used in hedge trimming, etc.); cf. fag-hook n. (b) at fag v.4 Compounds. ΚΠ 1818 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 28 Feb. Wounding Robert Dolley, with a sickle and fagging hook, in such manner as to endanger his life. 1840 Irish Penny Jrnl. 22 Aug. 60/1 Last year he cut and bound half an acre of wheat himself with a fagging-hook. 1884 R. Jeffries Life of Fields 154 This crooked stick is the fagging-hook used to pull the wheat towards the reaper with the left hand. 1968 Illustr. London News 24 Aug. 19/1 Many a woodman cutting bracken with a fagging hook,..has been unaware of the presence of a wood ants' mound. < as lemmas |
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