pruning hook

American  

noun

1. an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.

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pruning hook British  

noun

1. a tool with a curved steel blade terminating in a hook, used for pruning

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Etymology

Origin of pruning hook

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

The woman holds a laurel wreath, plow stock and pruning hook, and a biblical inscription at her feet says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023

Last week the President: > Used a pruning hook on departmental Budget estimates, slashing away steadily.

From Time Magazine Archive

They placed the plowshare and the pruning hook where the rifle and the tomahawk long held sway.

From Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History by Grable, F. C.

Arm'd with a pruning hook, he one appears Who lops the vines.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

Cato writes further in great detail of the kind and number of iron tools which are required for a vineyard, such as the falx or pruning hook, spades, hoes.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax