| 单词 | weed-hook |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweed-hook a. An agricultural implement with a crescent-shaped blade and sharp inner edge for lopping or cutting, as a weed-hook; esp. a reaping-hook.Earliest attested in weed hook n.A hook used to be distinguished from a sickle by having the edge finely serrated. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > sickle hooka700 sicklea1000 crookc1290 cycle1387 reap hook1388 reaping hook1578 knife-hooka1599 crotchet1833 a700 Epinal Gloss. 887 Sarculum, uueadhoc. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 42 He sende hem þider [to the vineyard] fol son to helpen hem wiþ hoc. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. xv. 356 Iulius is paynted with an hoke repynge corne. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 242/1 Hooke to hewe wode,..sirculus. c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 94 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 307 Gyf he in sic corne cuth set huke. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. iv. 67 The crukit huik vndir his weid held he. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xviv Pees and beanes be..reped or mowen of dyuers maners, some with sickels, some with hokes, and some with staffe hokes. 1643 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1814) VI. i. 251 2000 hwickis and 100 sythes for sheiring and mawing. 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July v. 42 Here [i.e. at Sandwich] they cut their drilled Field-pease with what they call Hook and Hincks. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 610 The reaping and bagging hooks are made of cast-steel. 1889 Daily News 8 Aug. 5/1 The old saying applied to the bad harvestman, ‘A bad shearer never had a good hook’. < as lemmas |
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