reap-hook

There are three reap-hook hills about three miles west, their steep side facing the south.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

The men cut their small grain with a reap-hook and threshed it beneath the hoofs of horses.

Sergeant York And His People

At the plough, scythe, or reap-hook I feared no competitor, and thus I set absolute want at defiance; and as I never cared further for my labours than while I was in actual exercise, I spent the evenings in the way after my own heart.

Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists Various 1918

I've looked it out -- that gets up in the south-east in December month: pretty low, and yet full high enough to stand over a cottage; one o 'the brightest too, and easily known, for it carries five other stars set like a reap-hook just above it.

News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

This was done by the person taking hold of as much of the straws as he could hold in his left hand, then using the reap-hook with his right hand, with a quick stroke, cut off the straws, and place them in bunches to be tied in bundles.

Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years). John Coram 1902

Instead of the reap-hook to cut the grain, and a wooden flail to beat it out of the straw, the great wheat ranches of the west have machines to cut, thresh, clean, and sack the grain.

Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years). John Coram 1902

The reap-hook and the wooden flail were laid aside, and the darkeys had an easier time.

Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years). John Coram 1902

In those days, the grain was cut with a reap-hook.

Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years). John Coram 1902

And reap-hook he liked, or anything to do with trees.

Last Poems Edward Thomas 1897

Of what he had been told when he was a child, or what he had seen for himself in after-life, his memory was full; and every stroke of reap-hook or thrust of spade had power to entice his intellect along the familiar grooves of thought -- grooves which lie on the surface and are unconnected with any systematized channels of idea-work underneath.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895