sickle

Speech parts

1. sickle - Noun

2. sickle - Adjective

3. sickle - Verb

4. Sickle - Proper noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

reaping hook reap hook crescent half-moon kama ripper bola shiv chine grindstone saw knife horseshoe chisel scythe
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Antonyms

join connect combine unite spoon mend
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Hypernyms

edge tool

Phrases with the word

sickle-billed vanga yellow-leaf sickle pine sickle-shaped object sickle cell syndrome sickle blade curved sickle blade

Anagrams

Eslick Ickles

Examples

There 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

Close letter words and terms

sickishness sicklaemia sicklaemic sickle alfalfa sickle and hammer sickle blade