Original sentence: Cutting tool.Diamond tool.Garden tool.Hand tool.Power tool
Edited sentence: A Museum of Early American Tools  by Eric Sloane  Ballantine Books  1974 ed.By the late 1800s the less artful sickle became the hay cutting tool of choice.It was used in conjunction with a wooden grass crook with which one held the standing grass steady, while swinging the sickle blade through the shank.Its slender, ultra sharp, half circle blade was employed in cutting grass for hay and it took some skill to use successfully.Later scythes had two nibs  Used by an experienced hand, the scythe was an efficient tool, slicing through acres of green hay with methodic precision.Scythes are grass cutting tools with long handles for mowing large amounts of hay.Scythes were the prized possession of early Americans and , carefully protected from abuse and weather, they could last for centuries.Sickles and Scythes.Sickles found today will seem to have smooth blades to the modern viewer, as the serrations are usually worn away over time.The American history of hay cutting tools begins with the reaping hook.The blade of the sickle was serrated and less circular than the reaping hook.The blade was straighter than the sickle's, with an almost straight blade side and a gently curved blunt side.The earliest scythes had no nibs.The employment of this tool took less finesse and more of a slashing technique.The graceful shape of the scythes of the late 1700s and early 1800s hinted at the grace and art required for using the tool properly.The handle, called a snath, would ordinarily be of a hardwood indigenous to the area of manufacture with small handholds, strategically placed, termed nibs