Dict: easton - Sickle

easton:

Sickle @ of the Egyptians resembled that in modern use. The ears of corn were cut with it near the top of the straw. There was also a sickle used for warlike purposes, more correctly, however, called a pruning-hook kjv@Deuteronomy:16:9; kjv@Jeremiah:50:16, marg., "scythe;" kjv@Joel:3:13; kjv@Mark:4:29).