Antonyms for sickle

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : sik-uh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪk əl

Definition of sickle

Origin : Old English sicol, probably a West Germanic borrowing (cf. Middle Dutch sickele, Dutch sikkel, Old High German sihhila, German Sichel) from Vulgar Latin *sicila, from Latin secula "sickle" (cf. Italian segolo "hatchet"), from PIE root *sek- "to cut" (see section (n.)). Applied to curved or crescent-shaped things from mid-15c. Sickle-cell anemia is first recorded 1922.

As in knife : noun cutting tool
As in machete : noun weapon
As in crescent : noun sickle-shaped object
As in mow : verb cut
As in cut : verb sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise

Example sentences :

The American pioneers had only a sickle or a scythe with which to cut their grain.
Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson

From behind the hills peeped the edge of the moon—a sickle of burnished copper.
Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini

The shoots are then topped off with a sickle, corn-cutter or similar tool.
Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick

The wheat was ripe for the sickle, but there was not a man or boy to (p. 021)cut it.
Extract from : « Charles Carleton Coffin » by William Elliot Griffis, D. D.

The scythe, the sickle, and the flail were the same as their forbears had used for centuries.
Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson

From horn to horn of the sickle galloped the riderless horses.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

Situated in the handle of the Sickle, and the right fore paw of the Lion.
Extract from : « A Field Book of the Stars » by William Tyler Olcott

Then he gave the magician a blow with the sickle and cut off his head.
Extract from : « Italian Popular Tales » by Thomas Frederick Crane

This I cut with a sickle, and then thrashed it with a flail.
Extract from : « By Canoe and Dog-Train » by Egerton Ryerson Young

Down they went before the Spanish blades like corn before the sickle.
Extract from : « Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships » by W.H.G. Kingston

Synonyms for sickle

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