Word.ws English Dictionary

sicklewise

sicklewise adverb: in the manner of a sickle.

Adverb

sicklewise (not comparable)

  1. In the manner of a sickle.
    • a weapon that is held sicklewise

Origin of sicklewise

From sickle + -wise.

Questions about sicklewise

What does sicklewise mean?
Sicklewise means in the manner of a sickle.
What part of speech is sicklewise?
Sicklewise is an adverb.

Words near sicklewise in the dictionary

  1. sickles and hammers
  2. Sickleses
  3. sickless
  4. sicklessness
  5. sickleweed
  6. sicklewise
  7. sicklewort
  8. sicklied
  9. sicklier
  10. sicklies
  11. sickliest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sicklewise (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sicklewise.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sicklewise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.