Sickle
['sɪk(ə)l] or ['sɪkl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle.
黛博拉校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.
(n.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.
手打:默文
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Reaping-hook.
格里菲思校對
解釋/意思:
n. a hooked instrument for cutting grain.—n. Sic′kle-bill a name applied to various birds with sickle-shaped bill.—adj. Sic′kled bearing a sickle.—ns. Sic′kle-feath′er one of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock; Sic′kleman one who uses a sickle a reaper.—adj. Sic′kle-shaped.—n. Sic′kle-wort the self-heal.
手打:旺达
例句/造句/用法:
- From the first pages of history we find that the reaping hook or sickle is the earliest tool for harvesting grain of which we have record. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The Reaping Hook or Sickle. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The machine did the work of the original man with the sickle or scythe and that of the cradler, and having cut the grain left it in loose piles on the ground. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Its neck was arched and terrible, like a sickle, its flanks were pressed back, rigid with power. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Some means besides the sickle and scythe, hoe and plough, were wanted to destroy obnoxious standing grass and weeds. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The scythe, which is a development from the sickle, enables the operator to use both hands instead of one. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The wheat was going to waste, for there were not enough scythes and sickles to cut it. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Some had sickles and reaping hooks but these Pablo placed at the far end where the lines reached the edge of the cliff. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Instead of standing up straight and separated to be cut the wheat would more often come in great bunches, twisting about the sickles and getting tangled in the machinery. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The plan of the machine was well enough; it consisted of a row of short curved sickles that were fastened to upright posts. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Primitive sickles or reaping hooks made of flint or bronze are found among the remains left by the older nations. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Revolving rods drove the wheat up against the sickles. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The colonists, when they settled in this country, probably brought with them all the European types of sickles and scythes, and out of them evolved the cradle. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
錄入:米歇尔