sickle
Syllables: sic·kle/ˈsɪkl̩/
sickle noun: an implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
Noun
sickle (plural sickles)
- An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
- Coordinate term: scythe
- Lou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks
VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come,
Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes,
But beares it out euen to the edge of doome:
If this be error and vpon me proued,
I neuer vvrit, nor no man euer loued.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature H, recto
- Synonyms:
- reap hook, reaping hook
- A sickle feather, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domestic cock.
- The crescent moon.
- Then, ere the silver sickle of that month
Became her golden shield, I stole from court
With Cyril and with Florian, unperceived.1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 1”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
- Then, ere the silver sickle of that month
Verb
sickle (third-person singular simple present sickles, present participle sickling, simple past and past participle sickled)
- To cut with a sickle.
- Near-synonyms: reap, mow
- Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
- Even the cells of heterozygotes will sickle if the oxygen tension is low enough.1975, Robert Warren McGilvery, IV. 75, in Biochemistry
- To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape, to cause to sickle.
Proper noun capitalized: Sickle
Sickle (plural Sickles)
- A surname from German.
sickle meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sickle in Hindi
- agricultural implement
- दरांती darāntī, हँसिया hãsiyā
sickle in Tamil
- agricultural implement
- அரிவாள் arivāḷ
sickle in Marathi
- sickle
- कोयता koytā, कोयती koytī
sickle in Urdu
- agricultural implement
- ہَن٘سِیا hansiyā, سکل sikal, درانتی daranti
More languagesFewer languages
- sickle in Bengali
- কাস্তে kaste, কাচি kaci
- sickle in Telugu
- కొడవలి koḍavali
- sickle in Malayalam
- അരിവാൾ arivāḷ
- sickle in Kannada
- ಕುಡುಗೋಲು kuḍugōlu
- sickle in Gujarati
- દાતરડું dātarḍũ
- sickle in Odia
- ଦାଆ dāā
- sickle in Sanskrit
- दात्र dā́tra, सृणी
- sickle in Sinhala
- කැත්ත kætta
- sickle in Assamese
- কাচি kasi
- sickle in Nepali
- हँसिया hãsiyā, करौती karautī
- sickle in Pashto
- رمبي rambáy, کاترۍ kātrǝ́y, منګال mangãl
- sickle in Tagalog
- karit, lingkaw, yatab
- sickle in Arabic
- مِنْجَل minjal
- sickle in Malay
- sabit
- sickle in Indonesian
- arit, sabit
- sickle in Persian
- داس dâs, منگال mangâl
- sickle in Thai
- เคียว kiao
- sickle in Vietnamese
- liềm
- sickle in Myanmar
- တံစဉ် tamcany
- Dzongkha
- ཟོརཝ zor.w
Examples of sickle in a sentence
- One also has to bow to the sickle moon or it will bring bad luck.
- I'm not exactly defenseless myself." From my paddy-paw a talon popped, curved like a sickle moon.
- Sometimes the creature is believed to be killed by the last stroke of the sickle or scythe.
Synonyms of sickle
Forms of sickle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sickles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sickles |
| present participle | sickling |
| past participle | sickled |
| past | sickled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sickles |
Origin of 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.
Probably an Americanized form of German Sickel.
Words formed from sickle
Phrases with sickle
Words that rhyme with sickle
Questions about sickle
- What does sickle mean?
- Sickle means an implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
- What is sickle in Hindi?
- Sickle in Hindi is दरांती (darāntī), हँसिया (hãsiyā). See Sickle meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sickle?
- Sickle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sickle?
- Sickle is pronounced /ˈsɪkl̩/.
- What is the plural of sickle?
- The plural of sickle is sickles.
Words near sickle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sickle (page history and authors); Sickle (page history and authors); कोयता (Marathi) (page history and authors); દાતરડું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଦାଆ (Odia) (page history and authors); दात्र (Sanskrit) (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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