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weed hook

weed hook noun: a gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.

Noun

weed hook (plural weed hooks)

  1. A gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.
    • In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove,
      And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...
    Synonyms:
    weeding hook

Synonyms of weed hook

  • weeding hook

Forms of weed hook

pluralweed hooks
alternative formweedhook

Origin of weed hook

From Old English wēodhōc.

Questions about weed hook

What does weed hook mean?
Weed hook means a gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.
What part of speech is weed hook?
Weed hook is a noun.
What is the plural of weed hook?
The plural of weed hook is weed hooks.

Words near weed hook in the dictionary

  1. weed brownies
  2. Weed Day
  3. Weed Days
  4. weed eater
  5. weed eaters
  6. weed hook
  7. weed hooks
  8. weed killer
  9. weed killers
  10. weed man
  11. weed men

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