reaping hook
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Reap v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaped p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping.]
1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. --Lev. xix. 9.
2. To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing
For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate? --Milton.
3. To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.]
Reaping hook, an implement having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.
Sic·kle n.
1. A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.
When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. --Shak.
2. Astron. A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.
Sickle pod Bot., a kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods.
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reaping hook
n : an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade
and a short handle [syn: sickle, reap hook]