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sickles

sickles is the plural of sickle.

sickles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sickle.

Meaning of sickle

Noun

sickle (plural sickles)

  1. An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
    • Coordinate term: scythe
  2. A sickle feather, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domestic cock.
  3. (poetic) 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

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Proper noun capitalized: Sickles

Sickles (countable and uncountable, plural Sickleses)

  1. A surname from German.
  2. An unincorporated community in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States.

Forms of sickles

pluralSickleses

Origin of sickles

Possibly an altered form of German Sickel.

Phrases with sickles

Questions about sickles

What does sickles mean?
Sickles means a surname from German.
What is sickles the plural of?
Sickles is the plural of sickle.
What part of speech is sickles?
Sickles is a proper noun.

Words near sickles in the dictionary

  1. sicklepod
  2. sickler
  3. sicklerite
  4. sicklers
  5. Sicklerville
  6. sickles
  7. sickles and hammers
  8. Sickleses
  9. sickless
  10. sicklessness
  11. sickleweed

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