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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