sickle

as inknife
as inmachete
as increscent
as inmow
as incut

Synonyms for sickle

noun cutting tool

cut

verb. sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise

Word Origin & History

Old English sicol, probably a West Germanic borrowing (cf. Middle Dutch sickele, Dutch sikkel, Old High German sihhila, German Sichel) from Vulgar Latin *sicila, from Latin secula "sickle" (cf. Italian segolo "hatchet"), from PIE root *sek- "to cut" (see section (n.)). Applied to curved or crescent-shaped things from mid-15c. Sickle-cell anemia is first recorded 1922.

Example Sentences for sickle

The American pioneers had only a sickle or a scythe with which to cut their grain.

From behind the hills peeped the edge of the moon—a sickle of burnished copper.

The shoots are then topped off with a sickle, corn-cutter or similar tool.

The wheat was ripe for the sickle, but there was not a man or boy to (p. 021)cut it.

The scythe, the sickle, and the flail were the same as their forbears had used for centuries.

From horn to horn of the sickle galloped the riderless horses.

Situated in the handle of the Sickle, and the right fore paw of the Lion.

Then he gave the magician a blow with the sickle and cut off his head.

This I cut with a sickle, and then thrashed it with a flail.

Down they went before the Spanish blades like corn before the sickle.

sickle

Synonyms for sickle

More words related to sickle

crescent

cut

knife

knives

machete

mow