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reaping-hook

reaping-hook is the alternative form of reaping hook.

Meaning of reaping hook

Noun

reaping hook (plural reaping hooks)

  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...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 522

Forms of reaping-hook

pluralreaping-hooks

Questions about reaping-hook

What is reaping-hook the alternative form of?
Reaping-hook is the alternative form of reaping hook.

Words near reaping-hook in the dictionary

  1. reaping the benefits
  2. reaping the harvest
  3. reaping the whirlwind
  4. reaping time
  5. reaping what one sows
  6. reaping-hook
  7. reaping-hooks
  8. reapings
  9. reapologize
  10. reapologized
  11. reapologizes

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