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Definition of Pruning hook
1. Noun. A long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees.
Definition of Pruning hook
1. Noun. billhook ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pruning Hook
Literary usage of Pruning hook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"And weave them willow-shields; or melt and mould Corselets of brass or shining
silver greaves; None now for pruning-hook or sacred plough Have love or care: ..."
2. Personal Recollections of the American Revolution: A Private Journal by Lydia Minturn Post (1859)
"... shall be turned into the ploughshare, and the spear into the pruning hook."
I suppose you will say, " So be it" — after our independence is secured ..."
3. The London Medical Gazette (1833)
"... bearing in his hand the unstained knife, the intelligible pruning hook of the
horticulturist, in the midst of gay parterres, fountains of rather slender ..."
4. Round the World by Andrew Carnegie (1884)
"These are the devil's tools in monarchies; the Republic's weapons are the
ploughshare and the pruning hook. For three hundred miles the Pacific is never ..."
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