sickle
See also: Sickle
English
Etymology
From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Related to West Frisian sichte (“sickle”), Dutch zicht (“sickle”), German Low German Sichte, Sicht (“sickle”), German Sech (“the blade of a sickle or scythe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪkl̩/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkəl
- Hyphenation: sic‧kle
Noun
sickle (plural sickles)
- (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
- Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.
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agricultural implement
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Verb
sickle (third-person singular simple present sickles, present participle sickling, simple past and past participle sickled)
- (agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
- (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
- (intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
Derived terms
- (transitive: to deform): sickler
Translations
to cut with a sickle
Adjective
sickle (comparative more sickle, superlative most sickle)
- Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.
- a sickle moon
Derived terms
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shaped like the blade of a sickle
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crescent-shaped
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