weed hook

noun

A gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.

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weeding hook
OriginOld English wēodhōc →
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Meanings

nounweed hook (plural weed hooks)

plural weed hooks · alternative weedhook

  1. A gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.

    In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove, And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love

    1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC

    Synonyms: weeding hook

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.

Similar
weeding hook

Origin

  1. Old Englishwēodhōc
  2. Englishweed hook

From Old English wēodhōc.

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APA

weed hook. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weed%20hook

MLA

“weed hook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weed%20hook. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “weed hook,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weed%20hook.

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