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sickle

/ˈsɪk.əl/

Translations

sicklenoun

sickles

/ˈsɪk.əl/

серп

The farmer used a sickle to harvest the wheat.

Фермер использовал серп для сбора пшеницы.

Synonyms

blade

cutter

reaping hook

scythe

sickleverb

sickled

Past Simple

sickled

Past Participle

sickling

Gerund

Synonyms

cut down

sickleadjective

more sickle

Comp.

most sickle

Super.

/ˈsɪk.əl/

Used attributively to denote a curved, sickle-like shape (e.g., "sickle moon", "sickle cell").

Synonyms

Definitions

sicklenoun

A tool with a curved, hook-like blade used for cutting grass or grain.

The farmer used a sickle to harvest the wheat in the field.

A symbol often associated with agriculture and labor, particularly in socialist and communist iconography.

The flag featured a hammer and sickle, representing the unity of workers and farmers.

sickleverb

To cut or reap (grass, grain, etc.) with a sickle.

The laborers sickled the wheat at dawn.

To bend or curve into the shape of a sickle; to become sickle-shaped.

Under the weight of the snow, the branches sickled toward the ground.

sickleadjective

Curved and tapering like a sickle in shape.

A thin sickle moon glowed above the horizon.