Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A reaping-hook.

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Examples

  • Waiting for the girding-hook, to be the nags 'delight:

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • All the day they have been dancing with their flakes of white, Waiting for the girding-hook, to be the nags’ delight: ’Tis the harvest, let them dangle in their skirted coats.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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