This is a socket-type hoe with a half-moon cutting blade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference

Carver rejoined them by the light of a setting half-moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

A half-moon was giving a little light, I could go faster now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

The valley floor lay empty in the semi-dark cast by a half-moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

This was necessary because a half-moon made the open glades bright.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference

On mountaintops around him eternal snow-pastures bask under a half-moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Absolute Friends]

“On the night of the half-moon will I take upon me the leopard form.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

A half-moon peeked through scattered streamers of cloud, nearly overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

I'd left her on the kitchen table, strapped into the little half-moon seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Acts]

Above the heavy ceiling of foliage, a half-moon stuck in the cloudless sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Rat]

Did that funky half-moon seat you all sit on so gingerly get a fresh covering?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2004] Reference

We have at best a half-moon, somewhat past and it's very, very dark here in Bethlehem.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 1, 2002] Reference

When a half-moon hangs between the mountains its light is that of drooping drowsy lids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergeant York And His People] Reference

A half-moon sailed from cloud to cloud, and the cloud shadows flowered across the valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

She was at anchor very close in shore, protected by a heavy half-moon and triangular battery.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

By the half-moon Mundy sees four valleys stretched below him like the spokes of a white wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Absolute Friends]

It was somewhat in the shape of a half-moon, and was set with rubies, pearls, emeralds, etc. etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.] Reference

The crisp half-moon rode a black sky, dotted here and there with the wisps of a few very high clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moor]

It was empty except for one half-moon cargo container that was secured flush against the far bulkhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act of Treason]

Wednesday night was perfect -- not a cloud in the sky, and a great half-moon to help them find their way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffalo Roost] Reference

There are six small plastic parts lined up beside each other connected by these little half-moon shaped wires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bach, Ballet And 1-Bit Symphonies: New Classical CDs] Reference

Then his arm went to an open half-moon shaped flight bag, he zipped it closed, picked it up and walked inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2004] Reference

And in opposition to that array of thine, the son of Pandu formed fierce array after the form of the half-moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

They saw the ships move forward in a large half-moon, but could not discern me, who was up to my breast in water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference

A half-moon battery of three guns once defended the Tower and commanded the outer ward, but it has now been removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

It was neither the Castillet, nor the six great bastions which surround it, nor the half-moon, we should have attacked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

English contemporary accounts say the Armada was formed in a half-moon, a centre and two wings slightly thrown forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

A half-moon wheel for guiding, up, down and either side, and two pedals on the floor, one for going and one for stopping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand by for Mars!] Reference

(Maybe that space is intended to allow customizers to install half-moon windows like they did in groovy 1970s custom vans.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Just in: Scion xB] Reference

A lone bright silver sea bream streaks off into deeper blue, its black half-moon tail slicing the water in a burst of energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alluring Remoteness of Karpathos] Reference

When next she succeeded in getting out, a half-moon hung in the east: a new lamp had come, she thought, and all would be well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

At present the question resembles a half-moon: analogy may show that the affirmative is waxing towards a full-orbed conviction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

They saw the ships coming over the water, in the form of a great half-moon, and soon I was able to make the Emperor hear my voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference

He nodded at one and all, his gold half-moon earrings twinkling in his evident satisfaction with himself and "le bon Père Honoré.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

On the site of the park a great terrace was bordered by a parterre in the shape of a half-moon, where a waterfall was later installed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Versailles] Reference

The passage began to slope upward once more, and Raf saw a half-moon of light ahead, brilliant light which could only come from the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

As we whirled along in the carriage, the half-moon in the dark blue sky, making heavy shadows on the trees and mansions, lit her cheek and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference