Sickle

Quick meaning: Sickle is a noun meaning (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

Meaning

(agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

More Meanings

1. Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
2. (agriculture, transitive, rare) To cut with a sickle.
3. (pathology, intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
4. (pathology, transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape, to cause to sickle.

Example Sentences

Coordinate term: scythe

Near-synonyms: reap, mow

Even the cells of heterozygotes will sickle if the oxygen tension is low enough.

Oft did the harveſt to their ſickle yield, Their furrow oft the ſtubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow’d the woods beneath their ſturdy ſtroke!

Word Forms

• sickles
• sickling
• sickled

Synonyms for sickle

Depending on context, synonyms include reap, mow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hemoglobinopathy, scythe, billhook, reaper, falx, cutter.

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