sickle moon

English

Etymology

From the resemblance to the agricultural tool.

Noun

sickle moon (plural sickle moons)

  1. A crescent moon.
    • 1999, Wendy Elks, Sickle Moon Ghost‎, page 37:
      "A what?" "A sickle moon. It's shaped like a sickle, you know — a tool. There used to be one on the flag of the USSR."
    • 1999, Barry Beck, Cathy Beck, Fly-Fishing the Flats‎, page 83:
      The moon is the key. If there is a full moon or a very thin sickle moon, there will be a spring tide.
    • 2014, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis‎, page 173:
      One also has to bow to the sickle moon or it will bring bad luck.

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