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单词 pruning bill
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pruning bill
pruning bill n. now rare a hand-held cutting tool with a hooked blade, used in pruning; cf. bill n.1 4.
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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.
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