Add to ORKGstooksThroughout the nineteenth century grain was often harvested communally. Both men and women could operate the sickle, but only men worked the scythe and the task of binding ("bunching" in the Avalon, "bundling" in Miramichi) was performed mainly by women and children. . . . The grain was first cut into "swarths" and the sheaves erected into "stooks." Eight sheaves, 4 on either side, formed the characteristic Avalon stook . . .PRINTED ITEM G.M. Story JUL 1974JH JUL 1974Not usedNot usedWithdraw
lashingIn Logy Bay, Outer and Middle Cove the sounds of the flail finally died with the decline of ...
winrowsLater in the day, weather permitting, the hay was shaken out evenly over the mown ground an...
make v. . . the men cut the grass with long-handeled scythes (sives). In smaller areas, they might...
bunchingThroughout the nineteenth century grain was often harvested communally. Both men and women...
stook[check]STRONGBACK. Ridge pole, Av. [check]STOG. To stuff, to pack, Av.; cf. [i]Engl. Dial. Dic...
Hand scythe with cradle showing the pioneer method of cutting grain and men tying bundles with stran...
rip-hooks. . . the men cut the grass with long-handled scythes (sives). In smaller areas, they mig...
reap-hook. . . in the haying season all men who were able would be away fishing. Harvesting of the...
cross-handed avIn the nineteenth century in both Avalon study areas fishing crews were predominantl...
bunchGrain was cut in September.... Cutting with the sickle or reaphook was an extremely ardous ta...
pikesTwo-pronged wooden forks, fashioned out of a single timber, were used in both Avalon and Miram...
Italy. Women Harvesting Grain with Sickles. Near Orvieto, Umbria. (1924)https://digitalcommons.brock...
scaffoldsAt that time herring was very plentiful and we saw twenty American vessels tied up with s...
The sickle and the scythe. An instance of path dependence - The morphological characteristics of th...
Jeremiah Hatch Murray threshing machine in action in front of the Vernal Roller Mill. Farming was on...
lashingIn Logy Bay, Outer and Middle Cove the sounds of the flail finally died with the decline of ...
winrowsLater in the day, weather permitting, the hay was shaken out evenly over the mown ground an...
make v. . . the men cut the grass with long-handeled scythes (sives). In smaller areas, they might...
bunchingThroughout the nineteenth century grain was often harvested communally. Both men and women...
stook[check]STRONGBACK. Ridge pole, Av. [check]STOG. To stuff, to pack, Av.; cf. [i]Engl. Dial. Dic...
Hand scythe with cradle showing the pioneer method of cutting grain and men tying bundles with stran...
rip-hooks. . . the men cut the grass with long-handled scythes (sives). In smaller areas, they mig...
reap-hook. . . in the haying season all men who were able would be away fishing. Harvesting of the...
cross-handed avIn the nineteenth century in both Avalon study areas fishing crews were predominantl...
bunchGrain was cut in September.... Cutting with the sickle or reaphook was an extremely ardous ta...
pikesTwo-pronged wooden forks, fashioned out of a single timber, were used in both Avalon and Miram...
Italy. Women Harvesting Grain with Sickles. Near Orvieto, Umbria. (1924)https://digitalcommons.brock...
scaffoldsAt that time herring was very plentiful and we saw twenty American vessels tied up with s...
The sickle and the scythe. An instance of path dependence - The morphological characteristics of th...
Jeremiah Hatch Murray threshing machine in action in front of the Vernal Roller Mill. Farming was on...
lashingIn Logy Bay, Outer and Middle Cove the sounds of the flail finally died with the decline of ...
winrowsLater in the day, weather permitting, the hay was shaken out evenly over the mown ground an...
make v. . . the men cut the grass with long-handeled scythes (sives). In smaller areas, they might...