| 单词 |
weeding-hook |
| 释义 |
weeding-hook = weed-hook.
1378Acc. Roll Doune, Wandsworth, Surrey (Westm. Chapter Munim.), iij Wedynghokes. c1440Promp. Parv. 519/2 Wedynge hooke, runco. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §21 And if it be drye wether, than muste ye haue a wedynge⁓hoke. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 270 When weeding-hooks and rakes The first Smiths made. 1763Mills Syst Pract. Husb. 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. 1787Burns Answ. Gudewife of Wauchope-House ii, The rough burr-thistle, spreading wide Amang the bearded bear—I turn'd my weeding heuk [Ibid. Wks. 1800 III. 378 weeder-clips] aside, An' spar'd the symbol dear! 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 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. fig.1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. v, 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. |

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