sickle
IPA: sˈɪkʌɫ
noun
- (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
- Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.
- A surname from German.
verb
- (agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
- (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
- (intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
adjective
- Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.
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Examples of "sickle" in Sentences
- I want you to pass me a sickle and a hammer.
- The mistletoe and the sickle have disappeared.
- I'm in favour of keeping the hammer and sickle.
- The paper carried the hammer and sickle on its first page.
- Hammer and sickle is the international symbol of Communism.
- Hammer and sickle are the international symbol of Communism.
- The hammer and sickle is a symbol of the communist movement.
- Kubrick included the hammer and sickle within the film in 1968.
- On the wall of the restaurant we can see an image of a hammer and sickle.
- The difference is that the hammer and sickle has been removed from the flag.
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