pruning hook

Its blade appears to have been slightly curved, like that of a pruning-hook.

One luminous body was like a serpent coiling itself up; another "like a square table;" another like a pruning-hook.

If at the time he caused the death, he was working in his vineyard, the pruning-hook must be left to rust on the branch.

The bulk of the people had forsaken the sword for the plough, and exchanged the spear for the pruning-hook.