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A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock.
Billhook, a version of the sickle used for cutting shrubs and branches; Death, a cultural personification depicted in some mythologies as wielding a scythe; Grain cradle, for aligning grain stems; Harpe, a Greek or Roman long sickle or scythe which doubled as a weapon; Kama (tool), a Japanese hand scythe used in farming, and martial arts
German cradle scythe from a painting by Ernst Henseler (1852–1940) A grain cradle or cradle, is a modification to a standard scythe to keep the cut grain stems aligned. The cradle scythe has an additional arrangement of fingers attached to the snaith (snath or snathe) to catch the cut grain so that it can be cleanly laid down in a row with the grain heads aligned for collection and efficient ...
Harvesting is the process of collecting plants, animals, ... Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulses for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper. [2]
Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne.Here the individual sheaves have been put together into a stook ("stooked") to dry. A sheaf of grain on a plaque Sheafing machine. A sheaf (/ ʃ iː f /; pl.: sheaves) is a bunch of cereal-crop stems bound together after reaping, traditionally by sickle, later by scythe or, after its introduction in 1872, by a mechanical reaper-binder.
Binders have a reel and a sickle bar, like a modern grain head for a combine harvester. The cut stems fall onto a canvas bed which conveys the cut stems to the binding mechanism. This mechanism bundles the stems of grain and ties the bundle with string to form a sheaf.
Only two tools were required, the axe and the sickle. The axe cut the trees to start the cycle. When the rye had ripened, it was harvested with a sickle, which could reach among the rocks and stumps where a scythe would have been ineffective. [20] In the second and third year the field would be sown with turnips or cabbages. It then might be ...
Garab - a sickle used for harvesting rice. Guna or Bolo-guna - A weeding knife with a very short, wide, dull blade and a perpendicular blunt end. It is used mainly for digging roots and weeding gardens. Iták - a narrow sword used for combat and self-defense in the Tagalog regions.