McLeod

[ muh-kloud ]

/ məˈklaʊd /

a brand of garden tool that is a combination of a rake and a hoe.

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Also called McLeod tool .

And this is why the testimony from McLeod and Preston was so extraordinary.
Obama Admin. Channels Cheney, Claims Unlimited War Powers|Eli Lake|May 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Throughout election day, McLeod had been “cautiously optimistic” that his man would win.
Democrat Ron Barber Retains Gabby Giffords’s Arizona Congressional Seat|Terry Greene Sterling|June 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He gave strict orders to Captain McLeod to suffer nothing to be injured.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson
He walked into the cheap little room McLeod had rented, followed by his squad of men.
A World by the Tale|Gordon Randall Garrett

Miss McLeod was going back to Narragansett the next morning.
Hope Mills|Amanda M. Douglas
McLeod's false and idle boast was the cause of all this serious difficulty between two great Powers.
Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2)|Thomas Hart Benton
If you say another word, the McLeod will be out of it––sure and final.
An Orkney Maid|Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr