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moon sickle

moon sickle is the alternative form of moonsickle.

Meaning of moonsickle

Noun

moonsickle (plural moonsickles)

  1. (poetic) A thin crescent of the moon.
    • It was a beautiful contrast to see her beside her mistress, like a glittering star in attendance upon the pale and almost vanishing moonsickle.1843, L[ydia] M[aria] Child, “Slavery’s Pleasant Homes. A Faithful Sketch.”, in [Maria Weston Chapman], editor, The Liberty Bell, Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, →OCLC, page 148

Forms of moon sickle

pluralmoon sickles

Questions about moon sickle

What is moon sickle the alternative form of?
Moon sickle is the alternative form of moonsickle.

Words near moon sickle in the dictionary

  1. moon runes
  2. moon set
  3. moon sets
  4. moon shot
  5. moon shots
  6. moon sickle
  7. moon sickles
  8. moon sign
  9. moon signs
  10. moon snail
  11. moon snails

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moon sickle (page history and authors); moonsickle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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