Editing Karambit (section)

=== As a tool ===
The karambit was originally an agricultural implement designed to rake roots, gather [[threshing]] and plant [[rice]] in most of island Southeast Asia. 

It's a smaller variant of the Southeast Asian [[sickle]]s (Indonesian ''[[celurit]]'', ''arit'', or ''sabit''; Filipino ''garab'' and ''karit''; and Malaysian ''sabit''). 

It still possesses many efficient uses for the modern laborer, allowing use of the blade for utility work, with the finger ring eliminating the need to put the knife down between operations, if use of the fingers to manipulate the object to be worked on is required (such as the action of cutting and opening a shipping box, or removing plastic wrap from shipments, in two very basic examples). 

The finger ring also provides an added degree of protection against dropping the knife during use, which is particularly essential in work environments that include heavy machinery, into which dropping a handheld, metal tool of any kind can cause massive damage to the equipment and those around it, especially if the tool is ejected at high velocity from rotating components.