单词 | weeding hook |
释义 | weeding hookn. A hook or hooked implement used to cut away, dig out, or otherwise remove weeds. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. weed hook n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > weeding tools weed hookeOE weeding hook1378 weedera1425 brier-crook1483 tongs?1523 weeding knife1598 broom-hook1660 weeder knifea1796 shovel-plough1801 extirpator1807 shovel-cultivator1869 thistle-digger1877 thistle-spud1896 thistle-cutter1901 flamethrower1915 flame gun1931 weed cutter2000 1378 Inventory of Downe, Wandsworth, Surrey (Westminster Abbey Munim. 27543) iij Wedynghokes. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 519 Wedynge hooke, runco. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiii And yf it be dry wether than must ye haue a weding hoke. 1596 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 68 ij syes ij pykes iij sykles on draft howke on payer Chenes with a Fetterlocke & iiij weedinge howkes. 1642 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 19 He little dreamt then that the weeding-hook of reformation would after two ages pluck up his glorious poppy from insulting over the good corne. 1694 R. Blome tr. A. Le Grand Entire Body Philos. vii. 245/2 The Soil must be duly prepared; that is, it must be turn'd up by the Plough, or dug with a Spade, or cut with a Weeding-Hook. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry III. 22 The common weeding-hook will not go deep enough to take out the whole of the long slender tap root of this plant. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 326 The rough bur-thistle spreading wide Amang the bearded bear, I turn'd my weeding heuk [1800 weeder-clips] aside, An' spar'd the symbol dear. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 135 The weeding-hook, which is a narrow strap of iron forked at the lower extremity, and a wooden handle at the other, is also used for raising weeds. 1866 S. Copland Agric., Anc. & Mod. II. viii. 133 The cockle must be pulled by hand from amongst the corn, being of too tough and woody a nature to be cut by the hoe or weeding-hook. 1941 Art Bull. 23 273 In the other mosaic by Beisan, December is represented by the cloaked woman,..resting on her shoulder a weeding-hook with two teeth. 2011 Sunday Star-Times (Auckland, N.Z.) (Nexis) 6 Nov. 16 Usually a quick whip around with my weeding hook once a week keeps things in check. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1378 |
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