What does reaping hook mean?

reaping hook

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

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"“Before he was a twel’month ould he had a mouth full o’ great teeth; his hands wor like ’s claws, and his legs wor no thicker nor the handle of a whip, and about as straight as a rapin’ hook; to make the matther worse, he had the gut uv a cormorant, and the whinge, and the yelp, and the screech, and the yowl, was never out of his mouth.”"

reaping hooks (plural) reaphook (alternative) reap hook (alternative) reaping-hook (alternative)

sickle reap hook

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