An edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle.
Agricultural tool consisting of a blade on a wooden handle, used for gathering and cutting.
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 . '
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