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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