单词 | sickle |
释义 | sickle n.   1. a short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting corn, lopping, or trimming.   2. anything sickle-shaped, esp. the crescent moon. Phrases and idioms sickle-bill any of various curlews with a sickle-shaped bill. sickle-cell a sickle-shaped blood-cell, esp. as found in a type of severe hereditary anaemia. sickle-feather each of the long middle feathers of a cock's tail. Etymology: OE sicol, sicel f. L secula f. secare cut |
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