Sickle
['sɪk(ə)l] or ['sɪkl]
Definition
(noun.) an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle.
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Definition
(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.
Editor: Mervin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Reaping-hook.
Edited by Griffith
Definition
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.
Typist: Wanda
Examples
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Reaping Hook or Sickle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Its neck was arched and terrible, like a sickle, its flanks were pressed back, rigid with power. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Some means besides the sickle and scythe, hoe and plough, were wanted to destroy obnoxious standing grass and weeds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The scythe, which is a development from the sickle, enables the operator to use both hands instead of one. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The wheat was going to waste, for there were not enough scythes and sickles to cut it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Some had sickles and reaping hooks but these Pablo placed at the far end where the lines reached the edge of the cliff. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The plan of the machine was well enough; it consisted of a row of short curved sickles that were fastened to upright posts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Primitive sickles or reaping hooks made of flint or bronze are found among the remains left by the older nations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Revolving rods drove the wheat up against the sickles. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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