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

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pruning hook

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

To transform a sword into a pruning hook is a matter for a skilled smith, but to change a bayonet into a poker is within the capacity of the least mechanical.

From By the Christmas Fire by Samuel McChord Crothers

He wears a conical hat, and grasps a crutch with one hand while he holds a pruning hook in the other.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See by C. King Eley

He ascends the tree to a low bough, and making a hollow in the folds of his robes, he crops with a golden pruning hook the mistletoe and so catches it as it falls.

From Bride of the Mistletoe by James Lane Allen