Sickles
[sɪkəlz]
Examples
- The wheat was going to waste, for there were not enough scythes and sickles to cut it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Some had sickles and reaping hooks but these Pablo placed at the far end where the lines reached the edge of the cliff. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Instead of standing up straight and separated to be cut the wheat would more often come in great bunches, twisting about the sickles and getting tangled in the machinery. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The plan of the machine was well enough; it consisted of a row of short curved sickles that were fastened to upright posts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Primitive sickles or reaping hooks made of flint or bronze are found among the remains left by the older nations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Revolving rods drove the wheat up against the sickles. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The colonists, when they settled in this country, probably brought with them all the European types of sickles and scythes, and out of them evolved the cradle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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