sicklingn.1
1. The action of cutting with a sickle. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > cutting with scythe or sickle
sickling1598
wheta1628
scything1969
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Segatura, a sawing, a mowing, a sickling.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 358 The adoption of our method of sickling.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 358 The wages..on the sickling scheme.
2. Pathology. The adoption of a crescent shape by red blood cells.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > disorders of red cells
microcythaemia1876
microcytosis1885
haemolysis1890
macrocytosis1893
macrocythaemia1894
anisocytosis1903
sickling1923
hyperchromasia1929
hypochromasia1929
hyperchromia1931
hypochromia1931
spherocytosis1933
protoporphyria1956
1923 Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull. 34 339/1 From these experiments it may be concluded that the sickling is an inherent property of the red blood cells and that the patients' sera are without effect on normal erythrocytes.
1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. xviii. 491 In the absence of oxygen the hemoglobin S forms crystals which cause the erythrocytes to assume peculiar sickled or oat forms. The sickling can be demonstrated in Negroes with sicklemia by allowing moist preparations of blood to stand, thus using up the oxygen.
1977 Time 28 Nov. 56/3 The Rockefeller scientists realized that any treatment for this genetic disease..had to be directed at stopping the characteristic sickling, or distortion, of the red blood cells that occurs after they unload their cargo of oxygen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
sicklingn.2
A sickly or delicate person.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person
dwininga1400
molla1425
impotenta1513
gristlea1556
weakling1576
puler1579
puling1579
shadow1588
shotten herring1598
doddle1681
sickrel1699
seven-months1724
wandought1726
wallydraigle1736
wreck1795
werewolf1808
windlestraw1818
weed1825
shammock1828
sickling1834
forcible feeble1844
dwindle1847
weedling1849
crock1876
feebling1887
asthenic1893
dodderer1907
pencil-neck1956
burnt-out case1959
weakie1959
1834 New Monthly Mag. 41 215 That they wear the red and white of health,..these sicklings cannot deny.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 297 Why should a man, like a girl or a sickling, Suffer his lamp to be quenched in the tomb?
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