reaphook

To get out of the ridges in which our creek exists, we had to follow the trend of a valley formed by what are sometimes called reaphook hills; these ran about east-south-east.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

With reaphook and the sickle so well we'll clear the land,

Letter 94 2009

He was armed with a gleaming reaphook, and accompanied by a big black dog.

Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878

The newly reaped wheat and oat fields, in the grain scattered and left therein, offer one important supply of food for hogs -- which is much the greater, because of the great and unnecessary waste in harvesting -- and that too, in the primitive mode of reaping entirely by the sickle, or reaphook, of which the admitted superior advantage is the permitting a cleaner and more complete saving of the crop.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

“’Tis Cain Ball,” said Gabriel, pausing from whetting his reaphook.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874