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Webster 1913 Edition


Sickle

Sic′kle

,
Noun.
[OE.
sikel
, AS.
sicol
; akin to D.
sikkel
, G.
sichel
, OHG.
sihhila
, Dan.
segel
,
segl
, L.
secula
, fr.
secare
to cut; or perhaps from L.
secula
. See
Saw
a cutting instrument.]
1.
A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf.
Reaping hook
, under
Reap
.
When corn has once felt the
sickle
, it has no more benefit from the sunshine.
Shakespeare
2.
(Astron.)
A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of
Leo
.
Sickle pod
(Bot.)
,
a kind of rock cress (
Arabis Canadensis
) having very long curved pods.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sickle

SICKLE

,
Noun.
[Gr. Vaiclh, Vagclon; L. sicula, from the root of seco, to cut.] A reaping hook; a hooked instrument with teeth; used for cutting grain. Thou shalt not move a sickle to thy neighbor's standing corn. Deut. 23.

Definition 2024


sickle

sickle

English

A scythe (larger) and a sickle (smaller)

Noun

sickle (plural sickles)

  1. (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

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A micrograph of red blood cells of a person with sickle-cell disease, which causes some cells to assume abnormal, sickle-like crescent shapes

sickle (third-person singular simple present sickles, present participle sickling, simple past and past participle sickled)

  1. (agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
  2. (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
  3. (intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.

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sickle (comparative more sickle, superlative most sickle)

  1. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.
    a sickle moon

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