sickle

• They generally returned to their ordinary occupations, and continued thus till the sickle was again heard among the yellow corn, and the stacks were growing in the barn-yard. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
• Still, there is a beauty more mature, when the sickle is about to be thrust into the grain He did not hear what she said. —  Wayside Courtships
• The crops are now ready for the sickle, and some partly cut: much of this land is occupied by a marsh choked with bulrushes of both sorts, Typha latifolia being the most common; Cyperaceae abound, Marsilea in profusion, Azolla, Mentha, Epilobii sp. —  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
• It does not do the work so neatly as the sickle, and is apt to pull up many stalks by the roots with the earth attaching to them, especially at the last, outside stroke I was struck with the economy adopted by my host in loading, carting and stacking or ricking his grain. —  A Walk from London to John O'Groat's
• And as far as she could see the landscape by the light of a bright little moon-sickle, there was nothing but a thick screen of trees and shrubbery. —  A Romance of the Republic

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