Definition of sickle in English:
sickle
noun ˈsɪk(ə)lˈsɪk(ə)l
A short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting corn, lopping, or trimming.
- Every station is embellished and decorated: delicate stars and hammers and sickles somewhat incongruously scattered about as decorative motifs.
- My classmates cut the wheat with small sickles.
- Then, one after another, they slit the men's throats with rusty harvesting sickles.
- I was harvested with sickles, tied in sheaves and buried in the bog-holes until such time as the skin peeled off easily.
- Normal hemoglobin is adult or Hb A. In active tissues with reduced oxygen, Hb S crystallizes into rods that aggregate and make cells look like crescent shaped harvesting sickles.
- Some researchers speculate that the shift occurred after people began using sickles to cut down barley and other wild grasses.
- He arranged two lines of men with flails, clubs, pitchforks, sickles, and reaping hooks.
- The weapons were cut up and remade into 4,000 hoes, sickles, shovels, and other garden implements for redistribution.
- It took her two years to ask him out but a sickle moon and a small drop of ‘friendship’ helped.
- The world looks on with bated breath as two old rivals get together moulding their swords into sickles and ploughshares.
- Six people were injured in the latest clashes between the two neighborhoods on Thursday which saw the use of Molotov cocktails and sickles by both parties.
- Other times I sought refuge in the safe haven of grandfather's forge and helped him to make sickles or horseshoes by manning the big bellows.
- The police later executed a preplanned raid of the penitentiary and seized hundreds of weapons, including knives, swords, sickles, machetes and other dangerous weapons.
- I asked Ahmad Khan one night as we drank sweet tea, under a sickle moon white as a picked bone that hung in the sky above us.
- He was also responsible for linking the Druids to mistletoe, white robes, golden sickles, and herbal medicines, all of which are part of the popular perception of Druidism today.
- Consistent with their agricultural roots, both dances, which are among the many competitive dances of Bagika and Bagalu, are often performed with farm implements such as hoes or sickles.
- The vast gold curtain that is still decorated with a herringbone of hammers and sickles rises, the orchestra starts to play, the dancers move.
- They use no machinery, only human labor and simple tools such as axes, knives, hoes, scythes and sickles.
- Most continued to use the same tools as their grandparents: scythes and sickles for reaping wheat and cutting grass, and wooden plows and harrows.
- Ma'dan blacksmiths make fishing spears, reed splitters, sickles (curved cutting tools), and nails for the canoes.
billhook, scythe
Origin
Old English sicol, sicel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sikkel and German Sichel, based on Latin secula, from secare 'to cut'.
Rhymes
chicle, fickle, mickle, nickel, pickle, prickle, strickle, tickle, trickle
Definition of sickle in US English:
sickle
nounˈsɪk(ə)lˈsik(ə)l
A short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting grain, lopping, or trimming.
- Some researchers speculate that the shift occurred after people began using sickles to cut down barley and other wild grasses.
- I asked Ahmad Khan one night as we drank sweet tea, under a sickle moon white as a picked bone that hung in the sky above us.
- Most continued to use the same tools as their grandparents: scythes and sickles for reaping wheat and cutting grass, and wooden plows and harrows.
- The weapons were cut up and remade into 4,000 hoes, sickles, shovels, and other garden implements for redistribution.
- I was harvested with sickles, tied in sheaves and buried in the bog-holes until such time as the skin peeled off easily.
- Then, one after another, they slit the men's throats with rusty harvesting sickles.
- He was also responsible for linking the Druids to mistletoe, white robes, golden sickles, and herbal medicines, all of which are part of the popular perception of Druidism today.
- Normal hemoglobin is adult or Hb A. In active tissues with reduced oxygen, Hb S crystallizes into rods that aggregate and make cells look like crescent shaped harvesting sickles.
- The police later executed a preplanned raid of the penitentiary and seized hundreds of weapons, including knives, swords, sickles, machetes and other dangerous weapons.
- The vast gold curtain that is still decorated with a herringbone of hammers and sickles rises, the orchestra starts to play, the dancers move.
- Consistent with their agricultural roots, both dances, which are among the many competitive dances of Bagika and Bagalu, are often performed with farm implements such as hoes or sickles.
- Six people were injured in the latest clashes between the two neighborhoods on Thursday which saw the use of Molotov cocktails and sickles by both parties.
- The world looks on with bated breath as two old rivals get together moulding their swords into sickles and ploughshares.
- He arranged two lines of men with flails, clubs, pitchforks, sickles, and reaping hooks.
- Ma'dan blacksmiths make fishing spears, reed splitters, sickles (curved cutting tools), and nails for the canoes.
- It took her two years to ask him out but a sickle moon and a small drop of ‘friendship’ helped.
- They use no machinery, only human labor and simple tools such as axes, knives, hoes, scythes and sickles.
- My classmates cut the wheat with small sickles.
- Every station is embellished and decorated: delicate stars and hammers and sickles somewhat incongruously scattered about as decorative motifs.
- Other times I sought refuge in the safe haven of grandfather's forge and helped him to make sickles or horseshoes by manning the big bellows.
billhook, scythe
Origin
Old English sicol, sicel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sikkel and German Sichel, based on Latin secula, from secare ‘to cut’.