cane knife
Harvest field tool
A cane knife is a large, heavy blade used for cutting sugarcane and clearing brush.
Similar to a machete but typically broader and heavier, with a hooked or squared-off tip designed for chopping thick stalks close to the ground.
The tool remains essential in regions where sugarcane is harvested by hand: Workers swung their cane knives from dawn until dusk.
Sucrose-yielding tropical grass
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- reapingCutting crops for collection
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
crop · seasonal · manual · labor · sweat · bundle · stacking · stripping
Heavy broad-bladed knife
Flat cutting edge
- handlePart for gripping
- tangSharp, biting flavor
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- edgeBoundary or sharpness
hilt · sheath · whetstone · sharpening · honed · grindstone · forge · blacksmith
sugarcane
Sucrose-yielding tropical grass
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- reapingCutting crops for collection
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
plantation · crop · seasonal · manual · labor · sweat · bundle · stacking · stripping · workers
machete
Heavy broad-bladed knife
blade
Flat cutting edge
edge · hilt · sheath · whetstone · sharpening · honed · grindstone · forge · blacksmith · metalwork
- machetesmachete, bolo, panga
- sugar plantationsugarcane, sugar mill, plantation, molasses, sugarcane fields
- sugar millsugar mill, mill, sugar house, evaporator, crystallizer
- bladesblade, edge, razor blade, cutting edge, scalpel
- cutting toolsaxe, saw, saws, blade, scissors
- sugarcanesugarcane, bagasse, billets, sett, ripening