'Sickle' definitions:

Definition of 'sickle'

(from WordNet)
noun
An edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle [syn: sickle, reaping hook, reap hook]

Definition of 'Sickle'

From: GCIDE
  • Sickle \Sic"kle\, n. [OE. sikel, AS. sicol; akin to D. sikkel, G. sichel, OHG. sihhila, Dan. segel, segl, L. secula, fr. secare to cut; or perhaps from L. secula. See Saw a cutting instrument.]
  • 1. A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. {Reaping hook}, under Reap. [1913 Webster]
  • When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Astron.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. [1913 Webster]
  • Sickle pod (Bot.), a kind of rock cress ({Arabis Canadensis}) having very long curved pods. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'sickle'

From: Easton
  • Sickle of the Egyptians resembled that in modern use. The ears of corn were cut with it near the top of the straw. There was also a sickle used for warlike purposes, more correctly, however, called a pruning-hook (Deut. 16:9; Jer. 50:16, marg., "scythe;" Joel 3:13; Mark 4:29).

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