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sickle (sik′əl)

noun

a tool consisting of a crescent-shaped blade with a short handle: used for cutting down tall grasses and weeds

Etymology: ME sikel < OE sicol (akin to Ger sichel) < early WGmc borrowing < L secula < secare, to cut: see saw

sickle Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • bend: Within his bending sickle 's compass come; which alters when it alteration finds, it is the star to every wand'ring bark.
  • shape: A sickle shaped implement with an angled blade for close cutting.
  • use: Climb across using a large sickle shaped layaway to gain a small hold continue to the break.
  • have: And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
  • carry: The Welsh dragon on the left carries a sickle to represent farming interests.
  • hold: In one corner is the head of a woman wearing a radiant crown, a goddess, holding a sickle.

Adjective modifier

  • sharp: And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
  • golden: In her right hand she holds her golden sickle.
  • tall: The tall sickle shaped fin is situated well back on the blackish body and the blow is rarely seen.
  • small: The curved phyllodes resemble small sickles and are a distinctive feature of koa trees and can often be seen on trees at the roadside.

Preposition: on

  • earth: So he who sat upon the cloud swung his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

Modifies a noun

  • anemia: He died of sickle cell anemia about 12 years ago.
  • anemia: BOO: Well, we don't get sickle cell anemia.
  • cell: Patients with sickle cell disease are treated at The Royal London.
  • trait: Carriers of Sickle Cell are sometimes said to have ' sickle cell trait ' .
  • hemoglobin: If an individual inherits one sickle hemoglobin gene they generally have no symptoms but they can pass this gene on to their children.
  • disease: Patients with sickle cell disease are treated at The Royal London.

Possessives

  • compass: Within his bending sickle's compass come; which alters when it alteration finds, it is the star to every wand'ring bark.

Noun used with modifier

  • bronze: Bronze sickles could have been better employed to collect fodder ( most probably leaf or twig foddering ) for working animals, especially horses.
  • flint: Gaia made a flint sickle and invited Kronos and his brothers to kill Uranus.