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sickling

sickling

8.4
The act of cutting grain by hand during harvest with a curved tool
  • noun
  • /ˈsɪk.lɪŋ/
  • Archaic
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  • After the rain stopped, the villagers resumed sickling to finish the harvest before sunset.

Examples

  • Traditional sickling requires skill and careful handling of the sharp blade.

  • The sickling of wheat began at dawn.

  • The workers spent the morning sickling the tall wheat in the golden fields.

  • During the festival, we celebrated the art of sickling.

  • The workers spent the morning sickling the tall wheat in the golden fields.

  • After the rain stopped, the villagers resumed sickling to finish the harvest before sunset.

  • Traditional sickling requires skill and careful handling of the sharp blade.

Synonyms

harvesting
vssickling
12 2.7

Gathering ripe crops from fields

cuts crops using a hand sickle as a specific method during gathering

How Extensive

harvesting
12 2.7
sickling
  • Archaic
8.4
trimming
8 2.3

Surface Forms

sickling singular
sicklings plural

Morphology

sickling = sickle (transparent) = sickle + ing

Derived by the regular verb-to-noun nominalization (verb 'sickle' + '-ing'), so the action meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Sickling comes from the tool sickle, a 'curved blade' used to cut grain, and the ending -ing which shows an action. So sickling is the action of cutting plants with a sickle.