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sickleman

sickleman

9.4
A person who cuts crops by hand with a sickle
  • noun
  • Archaic
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  • The sickleman worked tirelessly in the fields, cutting down the ripe wheat with his curved blade.

Examples

  • As the sun set, the sickleman finished his day's work, leaving behind neatly stacked bundles of grain.

  • Every autumn, the sickleman emerges to harvest the crops by hand, ensuring a bountiful yield.

  • The final two lines of this song describe vines and plants so ripened that they beg for the sickleman's or harvester's hand to place them in the burgeoning repositories described in the song's second line.

    Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

harvester
vssickleman
9 2.0

A person or machine that collects crops when they are ready

is limited to a man who harvests by hand using a sickle
sickler
vssickleman
  • Archaic
9.9

A person who cuts grain by hand with a sickle

is limited to a man rather than a gender-neutral person

Surface Forms

sickleman singular
sicklemen plural

Morphology

sickleman = sickle + man (transparent) = sickle + man

A straightforward compound 'sickle' + 'man' meaning 'a man who uses a sickle', components retain literal senses.

Etymology

Sickleman comes from sickle ('curved blade used to cut grain') and man ('person'), so imagine someone walking through a field with that small curved blade. That's why a sickleman is a person who harvests or cuts crops by hand with a sickle.