sickle

Examples

• All

• Mr. Brown sat in the driveway, the sickle-shaped dimple in his fender looking jauntier than ever.

  Fiction book (1994)

• There was still a moon in the black sky, a half-full sickle; the stars blinked.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I got him down to the creek, where my sickle lay upside the "simmon tree."

  Fiction book (2001)

• "Shane's voice, a raspy whisper, cut the temporary silence like a sickle slashing dry wheat."

  Fiction book (2001)

• The header's revolving reel mechanism swept the grain across a sickle-like mowing blade.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Farmers traditionally use a sickle to cut grass during the harvest season.

• She swung the sickle smoothly, making quick work of the tall weeds in the garden.

• With a sharp sickle in hand, he carefully harvested the ripe grain from the fields.

Synonyms

R

reaping hook

vssickle

• Archaic

8.3

A small hand tool with a curved blade and short handle for cutting wheat and grass

is the same meaning but differs in wording form

R

reap hook

vssickle

9.8

A hand tool with a curved blade and short handle for cutting grass or crops

is the same meaning but is a shorter variant in form

Compounds

S

sickle cell

• Specialized

10 4.3

A red blood cell with a crescent shape that can block small blood vessels

S

sickle-cell anemia

• Specialized

3 4.1

An inherited blood illness in which red blood cells become crescent shaped, causing low red blood cell count and pain

H

hammer and sickle

3 8.0

A crossed hammer and sickle sign that stands for workers and communism

S

sickle-cell disease

• Specialized

1 3.4

A blood condition passed from parents that makes red blood cells crescent-shaped and causes pain

C

common sickle pine

• UK

9.9

A small rainforest tree from Indonesia and Malaysia with sickle-shaped leaves

S

sickle alfalfa

• Specialized

9.5

A plant with yellow flowers and curved seed pods grown for animal feed

S

sickle feather

8.6

A long curved tail feather on a rooster that looks decorative

S

sickle lucerne

• UK

9.9

A plant like a clover with bright yellow flowers and curved seed pods

S

sickle medick

• Specialized

9.9

A clover plant with yellow flowers and curved seed pods like a sickle

Y

yellow-leaf sickle pine

• Australian

9.9

A New Caledonia rainforest tree with pale sickle-shaped leaves and a cone-shaped crown

How Big

combine

6 6.1

harvester

9 2.0

reaper

• Archaic

7 5.5

scythe

12 6.7

sickle

21 5.6

Surface Forms

Etymology