Meanings of reap hook in English

The goat-girl Miriam-thewild cat-cuthis forehead with her reaping hook.

He always cut his grain with a reaping hook to the day of his death.

One day some men came with sharp reap hooks.

Ploughshares were beaten into swords, reaping hooks into lances.

He himself has stood in the market-place with reaping hook or hoe looking for a master.

Their burthens were beside them, and one like Ceres held a reaping hook in her brown hand.

In their fore-claws, some wielded staves carved of stone, or enormous blades, or long iron poles with reaping hooks.

'I thought Death carried the Flail of Mercy and the Reaping Hook of Justice.'

Though they were fierce carnivores, with claws like reaping hooks and teeth like scythes, they didn't simply rend one's flesh.

'We call cutting the corn shearing,' I answered, 'because in these parts we use the reaping hook.'

The gray-skinned creatures came rushing from the city on their knuckles, thumping along the catwalk, curved reaping hooks and strange clubs in their hands.

You asked first for four hoes, two spades, two scythes and whetstone, two axes, two hay forks and two reaping hooks for every family.

Grasp the sickle and go out among the standing corn, or the rust on thy reaping hook shall eat into thy soul for ever!