Search Result for "reaping_hook":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle;
[syn: sickle, reaping hook, reap hook]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reap \Reap\ (r[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaped (r[=e]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping.] [OE. repen, AS. r[imac]pan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe.] 1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting. [1913 Webster] When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. --Lev. xix. 9. [1913 Webster] 2. To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions. [1913 Webster] Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate? --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field. [1913 Webster] 4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Reaping hook, an implement having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reaping hook n 1: an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle [syn: sickle, reaping hook, reap hook]