Synonyms for sickle
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : sik-uh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪk əl |
Top 10 synonyms for sickle Other synonyms for the word sickle
- amputate
- behead
- bisect
- bite
- bola
- bolo
- bow
- chine
- chip
- chisel
- cleave
- clip
- concave figure
- convex figure
- cresentoid
- crop
- curve
- cutlass
- cutting edge
- decussate
- demilune
- dice
- dispatch
- dissect
- dissever
- edge
- facet
- fell
- flitch
- gash
- guillotine
- hack
- half-moon
- hash
- hew
- horned moon
- hornlike
- intersect
- lacerate
- lance
- lancet
- lay open
- level
- lop
- lune
- massacre
- meniscus
- mince
- mow
- mow down
- new moon
- nick
- notch
- old moon
- part
- penetrate
- perforate
- pierce
- point
- prune
- puncture
- quarter
- rabbet
- raze
- reap
- rend
- ripper
- rive
- saber
- sabre
- saw
- scalpel
- scarify
- scimitar
- scissor
- score
- scythe
- separate
- shank
- shave
- shear
- shiv
- sickle
- skewer
- skive
- skiver
- slash
- slaughter
- slay
- slice
- slit
- sliver
- snip
- steel
- stiletto
- switchblade
- sword
- tickler
- trim
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for sickle
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