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Webster 1913 Edition
Sickle
Sic′kle
,Noun.
[OE.
sikel
, AS. sicol
; akin to D. sikkel
, G. sichel
, OHG. sihhila
, Dan. segel
, segl
, L. secula
, fr. secare
to cut; or perhaps from L. secula
. See Saw
a cutting instrument.] 1.
A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf.
Reaping hook
, under Reap
. When corn has once felt the
sickle
, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shakespeare
2.
(Astron.)
A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of
Leo
. Sickle pod
(Bot.)
, a kind of rock cress (
Arabis Canadensis
) having very long curved pods.Webster 1828 Edition
Sickle
SICKLE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
sickle
sickle
English
A scythe (larger) and a sickle (smaller)
Noun
sickle (plural sickles)
- (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
agricultural implement
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See also
Verb
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)
- (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
Translations
shaped like the blade of a sickle
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crescent-shaped