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ˈsickler
[f. sickle n.]
1. One who uses a sickle; a reaper.
1638Sandys Paraphr. Job xxiv, Their Sicklers reape the Corne another sowes. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 90 When on his golden tilths The farmer would the sickler bring. 1907N. & Q. 10th Ser. VIII. 114 In the cornfields, where more hands were needed—men as sicklers.
2. Path. A person with sickle cell anæmia or the sickle cell trait.
1932Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. CLXXXIII. 388 Normal gall bladders have been observed in ‘sicklers’ at autopsy who have had attacks of severe pain and rigidity in the upper right quadrant of the abdomen. 1954Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Feb. 291/2 In a group of 102 sicklers from the Balovale district of Northern Rhodesia only 10 (9·8%) had blood slides showing malaria parasites, whereas in a comparable group of 491 non-sicklers 75 (15·3%) had malaria parasites. 1978Observer (Colour Suppl.) 26 Nov. 58/1 In the old days, ‘sicklers’ rarely reached adulthood. |