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reaping hook en · NOUN

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1. A sickle, particularly a small one with a short handle used for cutting grass or crops.
   • “Before he was a twel’month ould he had a mouth full o’ great teeth; his hands wor like ’s claws, and his legs wor no thicker nor the handle of a whip, and about as straight as a rapin’ hook; to make the matther worse, he had the gut uv a cormorant, and the whinge, and the yelp, and the screech, and the yowl, was never out of his mouth.” 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 522:

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