| Title: | Weeding hoe, spud |
| Original Title: | Sarcloir |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 14 (1765), p. 646 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
| Subject terms: |
Gardening
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| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission. |
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| URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.401 |
| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Weeding hoe, spud." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.401>. Trans. of "Sarcloir," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 14. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Weeding hoe, spud." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.401 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Sarcloir," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 14:646 (Paris, 1765). |
Weeding hoe, spud, a gardener’s tool used for hoeing. It has a wooden handle, at the end of which there is a small, pointed iron which is used for cutting thistles and other weeds.