1. sickle - Noun
2. sickle - Adjective
3. sickle - Verb
4. Sickle - Proper noun
A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.
A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That is the truth. Not the hammer and sickle. Not the stars and stripes. Not the cross. Not the sun. Not gold. Not yin and yang. John Fowles
Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat. Frederic Dan Huntington
When a sickle is drawn, it in turn draws the tree to which it is hooked. Nigerian Proverb
A bad shearer never had a good sickle. English Proverb
To hang your sickle on another man's corn. Dutch Proverb