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.

Common collocations

• sickle cell Noun + noun

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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