| 单词 | fag-hook |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfag-hook fag-hook n. now chiefly historical (a) a heavy, short-handled tool similar to a sickle but without a serrated edge; = fagging hook n. (a) at fagging n.3 Compounds; (b) a hooked stick with which stalks of a cereal crop are drawn towards the person harvesting (also used in hedge trimming, etc.); = fagging hook n. (b) at fagging n.3 Compounds. ΚΠ 1870 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 18 June 6/5 John Silvester..was charged with stealing a prong and a fag hook. 1896 M. J. Bacon in P. H. Ditchfield Bygone Berks. 239 A fag-hook, or fagging-hook, is a crooked stick used instead of the left hand in clearing a bank of nettles, etc., with an iron hook. 1899 New Eng. Mag. Apr. 331/2 Two old fellows with fag-hooks were reaping the grass left by the machines along the hedges. 1921 E. Leadbitter Shepherd's Warning ii. ii. 85 It has bin a rare year for the corn... My old fag-hook, he en't hardly wanted. 1980 D. Thompson Change & Trad. in Rural Eng. 27 I viewed the old tools—hoes and spades and scythes and fag-hooks—with quickened interest. < as lemmas |
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