weed hook

English

Alternative forms

• weedhook

Etymology

From Old English wēodhōc

Noun

weed hook (plural weed hooks)

1. A gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.

   Synonym: weeding hook

   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), 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.