sickle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a short-handled agricultural tool with a curved blade, used for cutting grain or grass

   The farmer cut the remaining stalks with a sickle.

2. 2
   noun

   a crescent-shaped object or form resembling the blade of this tool

   A thin sickle of moon appeared above the hills.

3. 3
   verb

   to cut with a sickle

   Workers still sickle the grass by hand on the steepest slopes.

From Middle English sikel and Old English sicol, probably borrowed in early Germanic from Latin secula or sicilis ("sickle"). Cognates include Dutch sikkel and German Sichel.

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