Lexicographical Neighbors of Reaphook
Literary usage of Reaphook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1895)
""Tis Cain Ball,' said Gabriel, pausing from whetting his reaphook. Oak was not
bound by his agreement to assist in the corn-field; but the harvest month is ..."
2. Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English Labour by James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1906)
"... four forks for lifting trusses, and one long one for the rick ; three ploughs,
six iron dung-forks, three hoes, a reaphook and a scythe, two mattocks, ..."
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