Agricultural tool consisting of a blade on a wooden handle, used for gathering and cutting.
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Examples for "reaping hook"
Examples for "reaping hook"
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The goat-girl Miriam-thewild cat-cuthis forehead with her reaping hook.
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He always cut his grain with a reaping hook to the day of his death.
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He himself has stood in the market-place with reaping hook or hoe looking for a master.
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Their burthens were beside them, and one like Ceres held a reaping hook in her brown hand.
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Grasp the sickle and go out among the standing corn, or the rust on thy reaping hook shall eat into thy soul for ever!
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"'Tis Cain Ball," said Gabriel, pausing from whetting his reaphook.