Sickle

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• IPA: [sɪkl̩]
• Rhymes: -ɪkəl

Noun

Sickle (plural Sickles)

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

Synonyms

• reap hook
• reaping hook

Verb

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

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) To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.

Derived terms

• (transitive: to deform): sickler

Adjective

Sickle (comparative more Sickle, superlative most Sickle)

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

   a sickle moon