SICKLE

Sickle

A sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for harvesting grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock .

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sickle

Noun

  1. an implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops

Verb

  1. To cut with a sickle
  2. To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
  3. To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.

Adjective

  1. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.
    a sickle moon


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