sickle

See also: Sickle

English

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A sickle (smaller) and a scythe (larger)
No.10: sickles (sense 2.1)

Etymology

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SICKLECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sek-#SICKLE

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SICKLECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SICKLE sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#SICKLECategory:English terms derived from Old English#SICKLE sicol, siċel, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SICKLECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SICKLE *sikilu, itself borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#SICKLE sēcula (sickle) or sīcīlis (sickle). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.

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Noun

sickle (plural sickles)Category:English lemmas#SICKLECategory:English nouns#SICKLECategory:English countable nouns#SICKLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SICKLECategory:Pages with entries#SICKLECategory:Pages with 1 entry#SICKLE

  1. (agricultureCategory:en:Agriculture#SICKLE) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
    Synonyms: reap hook, reaping hook
    Coordinate term: scythe
  2. Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
    1. A sickle feather, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domestic cock.
    2. (poeticCategory:English poetic terms#SICKLE) The crescent moon.

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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)Category:English lemmas#SICKLECategory:English verbs#SICKLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SICKLECategory:Pages with entries#SICKLECategory:Pages with 1 entry#SICKLE

  1. (agricultureCategory:en:Agriculture#SICKLE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SICKLE, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#SICKLE) To cut with a sickle. [from 1922]
    Near-synonyms: reap, mow
  2. (pathologyCategory:en:Pathology#SICKLE, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SICKLE) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
  3. (pathologyCategory:en:Pathology#SICKLE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SICKLE) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape, to cause to sickle.

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