sickle.
An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
Meaning & usage
An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
Anything resembling a sickle, especially: A sickle feather, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domestic cock.
Anything resembling a sickle, especially: The crescent moon.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.
To cut with a sickle.
Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape, to cause to sickle.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.
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