单词 | pruning bill |
释义 | > as lemmaspruning bill pruning bill n. now rare a hand-held cutting tool with a hooked blade, used in pruning; cf. bill n.1 4. ΚΠ 1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. iii. 60 With a sharpe pruning Bill cut euery seuerall branch of the roote within a finger or two of the stocke. 1737 tr. F. Rabelais Wks. III. iii. 138 He goeth, before God, as surely damned to thirty thousand Baskets full of Devils, as a Pruning-Bill to the lopping of a Vine-Branch. 1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening ii. iii. 319 The Pruning-Bill is generally a hooked blade..attached to a handle of from one to four feet in length. 1976 Jrnl. Sociol. 82 257 In the summer of 1835 a peasant youth, Pierre Rivière, killed his mother, sister, and brother with a pruning bill. < as lemmas |
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