sickle
An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
Other meanings
Anything resembling a sickle, especially
A sickle feather, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domestic cock.
A kind of
- edge tool
Related words
- sicklebill
- sicklebush
- sicklelike
- sickleman
- sicklemia
- sicklepod
- sickleweed
- sicklewise
- unsickle
- chain sickle
- chicken sickle
- sickle and hammer
Word history
From Old English "sicol".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “sickle” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.