'Sickle' definitions:
Definition of 'sickle'
From: WordNet
noun
An edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle [syn: sickle, reaping hook, reap hook]
Definition of 'Sickle'
From: GCIDE
- Sickle \Sic"kle\, n. [OE. sikel, AS. sicol; akin to D. sikkel, G. sichel, OHG. sihhila, Dan. segel, segl, L. secula, fr. secare to cut; or perhaps from L. secula. See Saw a cutting instrument.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Astron.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. [1913 Webster]
- Sickle pod (Bot.), a kind of rock cress ({Arabis Canadensis}) having very long curved pods. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sickle'
From: Easton
- Sickle of the Egyptians resembled that in modern use. The ears of corn were cut with it near the top of the straw. There was also a sickle used for warlike purposes, more correctly, however, called a pruning-hook (Deut. 16:9; Jer. 50:16, marg., "scythe;" Joel 3:13; Mark 4:29).