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noun
- an agricultural implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops
Translations: - French: faucille
- German: Sichel
- Italian: falce
verb (sickle, sickling, sickled, sickles)
- (transitive) To cut with a sickle
- (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
- (intransitive) To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.
Translations: adjective
- Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.
- a sickle moon
Translations: Etymology: Old English sicol
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