pruninghook

See also: pruning hook

English

Noun

pruninghook (plural pruninghooks)

  1. a spearlike pole used to cut off dead branches or to pluck fruit out of trees
    And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:4, KJV)
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