weeding-hook

This, with the occasional use of the weeding-hook, is all that the lands will require till the time of sowing.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

The use of the weeding-hook does away with the drudgery, and makes really pleasant work of the fight with weeds.

Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882

Provide yourself with a hoe, an iron-toothed rake, a weeding-hook, a trowel for transplanting, a wheel-barrow, a spade, and a watering-pot.

Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882

Provide yourself with a weeding-hook -- a little tool with claw-shaped teeth -- with which you can uproot more weeds in an hour than you can in all day by hand, and the work will be done in a superior manner as the teeth of the little tool stir the surface of the soil just enough to keep it light and open -- a condition that is highly favorable to the healthy development of young plants.

Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882