Agricultural tool consisting of a blade on a wooden handle, used for gathering and cutting.
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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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I am the cure of Darney, a village among the Reaping Hook Hills, a few leagues south from here.
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I am the cur of Darney, a village among the Reaping Hook Hills, a few leagues south from here.
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'I thought Death carried the Flail of Mercy and the Reaping Hook of Justice.'
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'We call cutting the corn shearing,' I answered, 'because in these parts we use the reaping hook.'