sickle

From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkəl
• Hyphenation: sic‧kle

sickle (plural sickles)

1. (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
2. Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.

• reap hook
• reaping hook

• scythe

• Sickle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

A micrograph of red blood cells of a person with sickle-cell disease, which causes some cells to assume abnormal, sickle-like crescent shapes

sickle (third-person singular simple present sickles, present participle sickling, simple past and past participle sickled)

1. (agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
2. (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
3. (intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.

• (transitive: to deform): sickler

sickle (comparative more sickle, superlative most sickle)

1. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.

   a sickle moon

• sickle cell anaemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia

• Celiks, Eslick, Ickles, Leicks, ickles