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brush-hook
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a long-handled implement with a sharp cutting edge on a hooked blade, used in cutting brush, lopping off branches, etc.
Quotations
1832
The brushwood is cut away with a brush-hook, an instrument constructed here for the purpose. . . .
1963
Therefore most hand-tools are used in line-building and in mopping-up operations after the fire has died down . . . [including] brush-hook [for] clearing brush. . . .