sickle

thumb|240px|One of 12 roundels depicting the "Labours of the Months" (1450–1475) 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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A sickle is a hand-held farming tool with a curved blade used primarily for harvesting grain crops or cutting grass and plants to feed livestock. It has been an important agricultural implement for centuries, as shown in historical artwork depicting the work of harvesting seasons.

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Tool.name: Sickle
Tool.image: Hasiya krish.jpg
Tool.caption: Nepalese sickle from Panchkhal
Tool.other_name: Bagging hook, reaping-hook
Tool.classification: Cutting
Tool.related: Scythe

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name in kana: かま
Commons category: Sickles
start time: 1300-00-00

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History
Pre-Neolithic
Neolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Americas
Nepal
Serrated <nowiki>''Simple''</nowiki> or "toothed" sickles
Use
As a weapon
Other uses
Bagging hook
See also
Notes
References

Since the beginning of the Iron Age hundreds of region-specific variants of the sickle have evolved, initially of iron and later steel. This great diversity of sickle types across many cultures can be divided into smooth or serrated blades, both of which can be used for cutting either green grass or mature cereals using slightly different techniques. The serrated blade that originated in prehistoric sickles still dominates in the reaping of grain and is even found in modern grain-harvesting machines and in some kitchen knives.