sickler
9.9
A person who cuts grain by hand with a sickle
- noun
- /ˈsɪklər/
- Archaic
:
cosechador
- The sickler worked early in the morning to gather the ripe wheat before the rain came.
Examples
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During the harvest festival, the sickler demonstrated traditional methods of crop gathering to the onlookers.
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In the fields, the sickler skillfully cut the tall grass with a swift motion of his sickle.
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He's a sickler.
Synonyms
harvester
vssickler
9
2.0
A person or machine that collects crops when they are ready
refers specifically to harvesting by hand with a small curved tool
7
5.5
A person who cuts and gathers crops at harvest, often by hand
focuses on using a curved hand tool in traditional contexts
cropper
vssickler
1
7.5
A small farmer who grows and gathers food plants
focuses on hand harvesting with a specific small curved tool
agricultural laborer
vssickler
1
3.2
A person who works on a farm doing manual tasks like planting and harvesting
is limited to harvesting grain by cutting with a curved hand tool
9.4
A person who cuts crops by hand with a sickle
is the general term without male specific wording
grainer
vssickler
5.7
A person who grows or sells grain like wheat
limits sense to manual cutting of various crops, not trading
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sickler comes from the tool sickle, whose old root means 'to cut', and the ending -er means 'person who does something', so a sickler is someone who cuts and gathers grain with a sickle.