reaphook (rephuk)

Same as reaping - hook. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] reaping-hook (re'ping-hük), n. A curved blade with a short handle for reaping; a sickle; specifically, a sickle without the notched edge which formerly distinguished that implement. The reapers in Palestine and Syria still make use of the reaping- hook in cutting down their crops: and "fill their * rīpman (Anglian hrīpeman ), a harvestman, Oon daywerk of a goode repman may gete V strik, a febbler for III may swete. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 158.