Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A blade somewhat resembling a short scythe, and set in a handle at an angle a little greater than a right angle, used to cut standing corn (maize).
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It was a night of exceeding calm, with the moon, that I had seen as a corn-hook over my warfare with MacLachlan in Tarra-dubh, swollen to the full and gleaming upon the country till it shone as in the dawn of day.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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