reaping hook

The American history of hay cutting tools begins with the reaping hook.

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

She stopped inches from me, teeth bared and hands like reaping hooks.

She refused to reveal his position, even as a British soldier held a reaping hook at her throat.

In 1846 a mill was based in the village that sharpened reaping hooks.

The blade of the sickle was serrated and less circular than the reaping hook.

Some had sickles and reaping hooks but these Pablo placed at the far end where the lines reached the edge of the cliff.

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

We are to beat our swords into and points and our spear blades into reaping hooks.'

Traditionally reaping was done with the scythe and reaping hook, but in Britain these have been entirely superseded by machinery.

"That means two thousand arms with muscles in them, two thousand hands clutching weapons-even if it's only reaping hooks and pitchforks.

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

'It is weighted with the centuries,' said Dios, and passed over the obsidian Reaping Hook of Justice.

Then the little man handed me the bundle of dusters, saying, 'I always carry them on my reaping hook, but I don't think you could manage it properly.

Other colloquial/regional names for principally the same tool are: grasshook, swap hook, rip-hook, slash-hook, reaping hook, brishing hook or bagging hook.

Shortly thereafter, one of Huck's soldiers put a reaping hook to the neck of Col. Bratton's wife, Martha, in an unsuccessful attempt to discover Bratton's whereabouts.

See-that Wolf was stabbed by a reaping hook- that one died from the blow of the spade still in his neck..." "Maybe the villagers rose up against them," Oladahn suggested, "and the Wolves retaliated."

To this bargain she absolutely refused to accede; upon which the fellow catched up the hatchet, and threw down the nail; threatening, at the same time, that if she made any resistance, he would cut her throat with a reaping hook which he had in his hand.