to sickle
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6.6
- verb
- /ˈsɪkəl/
:
segar
Examples
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You see, you're sickling.
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So they would have to go into the fields with a plow, hoe, and sickle themselves, and there would be no traders to bring tin, copper, and hardwoods when those in the storerooms were used up. There would be no work for all the scribes without a kingdom to administer. Too many priests; they would all have to go to the fields or make bricks.
Fiction book (2000) -
Farmers traditionally use a sickle to harvest wheat during the summer.
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She shaped the metal into a sickle to create an artistic, curved design.
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After the storm, he went out to sickle the damaged plants in his garden.
Synonyms
To cut grain or grass by hand using a curved tool
Compounds
- Specialized
10
4.3
A red blood cell with a crescent shape that can block small blood vessels
- Specialized
3
4.1
An inherited blood illness in which red blood cells become crescent shaped, causing low red blood cell count and pain
- Specialized
1
3.4
A blood condition passed from parents that makes red blood cells crescent-shaped and causes pain
A small rainforest tree from Indonesia and Malaysia with sickle-shaped leaves
- Specialized
A plant with yellow flowers and curved seed pods grown for animal feed
- Australian
A New Caledonia rainforest tree with pale sickle-shaped leaves and a cone-shaped crown
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sickle as a verb comes from the name of the tool, so to sickle a field originally meant 'to cut' the crop with that curved blade, and by extension to make something into a similar curved shape.