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noun
an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
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Origin of pruning hook
First recorded in 1605â15
Words nearby pruning hook
prudish,
pruinose,
prune,
prunella,
prunelle,
pruning hook,
pruning shears,
prunt,
prurient,
pruriginous,
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How to use pruning hook in a sentence
âI think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,â Sandler said.
If the oft-talked-about college âhook-up cultureâ could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
Lawmaking by legislatures is also a one-way ratchetâLegislators get credit for passing laws, not pruning them.
But Kent will not let us off the familiar horror hook so easily.
They âhook upâ in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman.
Only then did I own that by hook or by crookâand mostly by crook, I was forced to suspectâthey had purposely given me the slip.
His face was hidden beneath a beard of bristling, bushy red, and he had a sharp hook nose and small, bright eyes.
The sailors tried to catch some with a hook and line, and were fortunate enough to succeed.
The launch was already under way, and young Cargill trying to avoid it better, thrust with his boat-hook at the side of the lock.
It was the merest babyâhalf-an-ounce, perhapsâand it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream.
British Dictionary definitions for pruning hook
noun
a tool with a curved steel blade terminating in a hook, used for pruning
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