weed hook

English

Alternative forms

weedhook

Etymology

From Old English wēodhōc

Noun

weed hook (plural weed hooks)

A gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.
Synonym: weeding hook
- 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
  In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove,
  And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love

References

“weed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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