Sickles

I do not mean to intimate that all the sickles, that is, harvesters, are made on that portage strip, for if all the factories and coal lands ❋ John Finley (1901)

The remaining assets were few—some land, one horse, one cow, three sheep, twenty-five chickens, four rifles, three sickles. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

Swords and shields, sickles, spears, shears, daggers, slivers of rusting metal thorn-pierced and dangling, glinting in the sun. ❋ Mllelaurel (2009)

Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander (Obscurus Books, 42 pages, 14 sickles 3 knuts): Paired with the release of Quidditch Through the Ages, there is the concise compendium of monsters and beasts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Doing my best to quell irrational fears of the few elderly souls I encountered, I concluded that they were in fact not intent on chasing me through the decaying cobblestone streets of N. that afternoon, moaning with crossed eyes, drool dripping from their chins, brandishing pitch forks, sabers, sickles, and torches, and I continued on my way. ❋ Josef K. Strosche (2011)

Jessica responded by using a diamond ring to scratch hammers and sickles into the window panes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It might help a bit if the word were a real one, like galleons or sickles, but I think Zettons is ok. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He attributed the improvement to the methodical pace at which the hooks or sickles are used to scrape the earth. ❋ Adam Entous (2011)

Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp (WhizzHard Books, 56 pages. 14 sickles 3 knuts): For the first time ever, a most unique book has been published and released into the muggle world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A third suffered a broken jaw, while a fourth, pursued by men armed with sickles, machetes and spears, was detained by the police for three days, treated as a suspect not a victim. ❋ Benedict Rogers (2011)

Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images A worker made sickles at his workshop in Dehgam, near Ahmedabad, India. ❋ Mukesh Jagota (2011)

As we frequently did after unloading our mowers and sickles and toiling for a while, we hid in the trees beside the road. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Now that kind of talk is usually followed with quips about hammers and sickles and the glory of the Motherland. ❋ Conan Neutron (2011)

The red flags are waving, hammers and sickles, CCCP. ❋ W.F. Lantry (2011)

Some might have advocated the Matthew Bible's double alliteration "So they shall break their swords and spears to make scythes and saws thereof" Coverdale adds "sickles", but the crowding of sibilants wouldn't have survived reading aloud. ❋ Unknown (2011)