A cutting tool used for pruning, consisting of a hooked blade on a long handle.
整枝钩刀
Example sentencesExamples
To this day, the ceremonial weapon carried by the Vatican's Swiss Guard is an evolved version of a combination spear/pruning hook.
It had three narrow metal rods about six inches long attached spoke-like to a central axis that also held, roughly perpendicular to them, a cutter in the shape of a small sickle or pruning hook.
Definition of pruning hook in US English:
pruning hook
noun
A cutting tool used for pruning, consisting of a hooked blade on a long handle.
整枝钩刀
Example sentencesExamples
It had three narrow metal rods about six inches long attached spoke-like to a central axis that also held, roughly perpendicular to them, a cutter in the shape of a small sickle or pruning hook.
To this day, the ceremonial weapon carried by the Vatican's Swiss Guard is an evolved version of a combination spear/pruning hook.