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- noun a
spearlike pole used to cut off dead branches or to pluck fruit out of trees
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Examples
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[Page 9] never conscientiously look on as a brother, till he has beaten his sword into a ploughshare, and his spear into a pruninghook.
Jackanapes 1879
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Wallace, "my sword might have now been a pruninghook.
The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813
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