Sickle example sentences

Before the 1830s, the grain used to be harvested with a cradle or sickle.Harvesting in our country is either done manually by sickle or by a machine called harvester.In1831, Cyrus McCormick invented the first mechanical reaper which could cut in one day as much as five men could cut with cradles and 16 men with sickles.One day they saw some tools like khurpi, sickle, shovel, plough, etc.