From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Agriculture, Tools, Gardeningsicklesick‧le /ˈsɪkəl/ noun [countable]
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TATZa tool with a blade in the shape of a hook, used for cutting wheat or long grassExamples from the Corpussickle• Notburga simply threw her sickle in the air, where it stayed until her boss gave in.• The economy was mixed with remains of wheat, grindingstones and ironsicklesindicatingagriculture alongside the remains of domestic animals.• The twilightsky was lavender and dark enough that Venus was out, hungabove a freshly mintedsicklemoon.• Diagnosis of the clinically severe forms of sicklecelldisease is not difficult, providing awareness of the disease is high.• She would then face him and, saying her own sickle needed sharpening, neatly slice off his head.• His beard was mushroom-colored, his eyes were pale as dew, and he carried a rustysickle.• In the dim light of the December moon, a silversickle, the landscape was bare no trees, no snow.• In Britain one in ten black people carry the sickle cell gene.OriginsickleOld Englishsicol