hache à serpette dorsale

English translation: broom hook

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French term or phrase:hache à serpette dorsale
English translation:broom hook
Entered by: Anne Greaves

15:13 Jul 6, 2017
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French term or phrase: hache à serpette dorsale
Hello all,
Am still translating mammoth archaeological text, this bit deals with agricultural artefacts. Could une "hache à serpette dorsale" possible be a double bladed axe/pruning tool? Just a bit of logical thinking, could be quite wrong. Thanks for any suggestions!
Différents fragments d'outils ont été retrouvés: deux faucilles (preuve d'une activité de moissonnage), et une hache à serpette dorsale (taille de la vigne, des arbres fruitiers et des haies).
Anne Greaves
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:48
broom hook
Explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billhook

(first para under “Design”):
The (billhook) blade is generally sharpened only on the inside of the curve, but double-edged billhooks, or "broom hooks", also have a straight secondary edge on the back.

"The Forgotten Arts & Crafts" (John Seymour / National Trust), on page 61 about hedge-laying, shows a tool corresponding to Asker's description (and to the one in my tool-shed), referring to it as a "bill hook (Kentish)".

As the wiki page shows, bill hook designs varied from one part of the UK to another - and as it happens mine came from a country estate on the Kent/Sussex border where my great-uncle was a gardner. That said, an "hache à serpette dorsale", if from France, won't be "Kentish" in anything other than resemblance.

Final comment: "broom" hook from the name of a shrub commonly found in ancient hedges.

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Referenced page from John Seymour's book viewable here:
http://www.mediamatrix.cl/misc/broomhook.jpg
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broom hook


Explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billhook

(first para under “Design”):
The (billhook) blade is generally sharpened only on the inside of the curve, but double-edged billhooks, or "broom hooks", also have a straight secondary edge on the back.

"The Forgotten Arts & Crafts" (John Seymour / National Trust), on page 61 about hedge-laying, shows a tool corresponding to Asker's description (and to the one in my tool-shed), referring to it as a "bill hook (Kentish)".

As the wiki page shows, bill hook designs varied from one part of the UK to another - and as it happens mine came from a country estate on the Kent/Sussex border where my great-uncle was a gardner. That said, an "hache à serpette dorsale", if from France, won't be "Kentish" in anything other than resemblance.

Final comment: "broom" hook from the name of a shrub commonly found in ancient hedges.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2017-07-06 18:19:31 GMT)
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Referenced page from John Seymour's book viewable here:
http://www.mediamatrix.cl/misc/broomhook.jpg

Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 06:48
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