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单词 reap hook
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reap hookn.

Brit. /ˈriːp hʊk/, U.S. /ˈrip ˌhʊk/
Forms:

α. Middle English ryp hook, 1500s rype hok.

β. late Middle English repe hoke, 1500s reape hooke, 1600s repe hoocke, 1600s– reap hook, 1800s– rape hook (English regional (East Anglian)).

γ. 1800s– rip hook (English regional (southern)).

δ. 1900s– rave hook (English regional (Norfolk)), 1900s– reaf hook (English regional (Norfolk) and U.S. regional (Georgia)).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: reap n.2, hook n.1; reap v.1, hook n.1
Etymology: Partly < reap n.2 + hook n.1, and partly < reap v.1 + hook n.1With α. , β. , and γ. forms compare discussion of forms at reap n.2 and reap v.1 In δ. forms perhaps influenced by reave v.1
= reaping hook n.
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1388 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: E 163/5/29) m. 1 j falcem & j ryphook prec. xij d.
1463–4 in H. E. Salter Registrum Cancelarii Oxoniensis (1932) II. 129 (MED) A repe hoke & Candelstyk, ii d.
1548 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) I. 19 A salt sellar & ij Rype hokes, x d.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Hocíno A reape hooke.
1629 in J. S. Moore Clifton & Westbury Probate Inventories (1981) 50 One wodden vessell..to spades, to repe hoockes.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. (1687) 323 Dict. Rusticum. A sickle, a toothed reap-hook.
1761 Brit. Mag. 2 447 One of them struck at him with the reap-hook, and cut his arm almost off.
1787 R. Burns Let. 2 Aug. (1985) I. 140 At the plough, scythe, or reap-hook I feared no competitor.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 143 The reap-hook had been busy among the ripened corn.
1854 C. M. Yonge Castle Builders vii. 98 Seeing them all come out from under the Church gateway with their reap hooks.
1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 464 In harvesting wheat, both the reap-hook and the sickle were used.
1938 Mississippi: Guide to Magnolia State (Federal Writers' Project) 95 At maturity indigo stood about three feet in height. Before going to seed it was cut with a reap-hook.
1969 G. E. Evans Farm & Village vii. 71 I harvested my corn with the sickle at first, then with the reap-hook or the bagging iron.
1992 Xinhua Gen. News Service (Nexis) 27 Oct. Wu rushed at the animal, slashing it with a reap hook.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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