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sickle
agricultural tool used for harvesting or cutting grass, consisting of a curved steel plate and a small handle
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Not who you're looking for? Others named sickle: English thoroughbred racehorse
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. Falx was a synonym, but was later used to mean any of a number of tools that had a curved blade that was sharp on the inside edge.
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