reaping-hooks

Then all returned to the other end, with reaping-hooks beneath our arms, and dogs left to mind jackets.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

And troops of sun-burn'd husbandmen with reaping-hooks and staves,

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

Idyls 'must be quoted:' The men carried their reaping-hooks; the sheaf was borne by the old man.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

The cry is repeated three times, and the rest of the reapers, standing round the old man with their reaping-hooks in their hands, bow down at each cry.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

The plants then being ripe, or fit for cutting, were cut with reaping-hooks, or sickles, a few inches from the ground -- six was the minimum -- and placed by strata in the _sleeper_, until it was about three parts full.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Now follow heavy instruments of husbandry — ploughs and harrows — while rakes, scythes, and reaping-hooks form a picturesque trophy behind them.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

But, after this, I don't think any one thought of loading or firing again, save one or two of the fellows astern and the coxswain of the boat, being too busy guarding the slashes the Somalis made at us with their long scimitar-like swords that were curved like reaping-hooks, and the blows they dealt us with their unwieldy matchlocks, which they used in club fashion.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

Inside the shop the assortment ranged from bundles of reaping-hooks on the earthen floor to bottles of champagne in the murk of the top shelf.

All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came toward him, with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes.

The Junior Classics — Volume 5 William Patten 1902

Late in November, when the apricots and plums and peaches were ripening on the laden, starling-haunted boughs, she would wander in the orchard belonging to the house, while the heavy drenching rains drummed on the leaves overhead, and sudden furious thunderstorms rent the livid-coloured clouds above with jagged scythes and reaping-hooks of white electric fire, or leaping, dancing, playing, vanishing tongues of thin blue.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897