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Meanings of reaping hook in English
Agricultural tool consisting of a blade on a wooden handle, used for gathering and cutting.
Usage of reaping hook in English
1
The goat-girl Miriam-thewild cat-cuthis forehead with her reaping hook.
2
He always cut his grain with a reaping hook to the day of his death.
3
He himself has stood in the market-place with reaping hook or hoe looking for a master.
4
Their burthens were beside them, and one like Ceres held a reaping hook in her brown hand.
5
Grasp the sickle and go out among the standing corn, or the rust on thy reaping hook shall eat into thy soul for ever!
6
I am the cure of Darney, a village among the Reaping Hook Hills, a few leagues south from here.
7
I am the cur of Darney, a village among the Reaping Hook Hills, a few leagues south from here.
8
'I thought Death carried the Flail of Mercy and the Reaping Hook of Justice.'
9
'We call cutting the corn shearing,' I answered, 'because in these parts we use the reaping hook.'