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Priest

The priest is a light (approx. 150 gr) bat-shaped hand tool of about 30 cm long made of wood, copper or plastic and with or without a widened (diam. approx. 3-4 cm) end (length approx. 6-12 cm) which is often weighted with lead. With a priest, the angler gives the caught fish a short, hard blow to the head to switch off the brain. This either to kill the fish immediately or to stun it before killing it with another technique, such as slitting its throat, for example. The handle is also used in the same way on some folding fishing knives. [MOT]

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Potato lifting fork

Potatoes can be harvested with a garden spade, a hoe, a potato harvester or a potato lifting fork. The latter has 3 to 4 wide and flat or, in cross section, triangular teeth with pointed ends (approx. 20-30 cm long), which are attached to a wooden T or D handle (approx. 1 m) . To scoop potatoes, a potato fork is used, the teeth of which are much closer together and end in balls so as not to damage the potatoes. Can be distinguished from the digging fork. See also dung fork. [MOT]

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Potato fork

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/potato-fork?lang=nl>

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Post hole digger

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/post-hole-digger?lang=nl>

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Potato grater

Elongated (approx. 50 cm long; approx. 20 cm wide), convex grater with fairly coarse triangular pierced holes with which raw potatoes are grated. It is cut semicircular on one short side; on the other short side it has a handle. The grated potatoes were mixed with flour, eggs and bacon to make a kind of pancake. [MOT]