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reaping hooks

reaping hooks is the plural 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

Questions about reaping hooks

What is reaping hooks the plural of?
Reaping hooks is the plural of reaping hook.

Words near reaping hooks in the dictionary

  1. reapeth
  2. reaphook
  3. reaphooks
  4. reaping
  5. reaping hook
  6. reaping hooks
  7. reaping the benefits
  8. reaping the harvest
  9. reaping the whirlwind
  10. reaping time
  11. reaping what one sows

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