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n. An implement having a semicircular blade attached to a short handle, used for cutting grain or tall grass.

n. The cutting mechanism of a reaper or mower.

v. To cut with a sickle.

v. To deform (a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.

verb-intransitive. To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.

adj. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped: a sickle moon.

n. an implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops

v. To cut with a sickle

v. To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.

v. To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.

adj. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.

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.

n. A reaping-hook; a curved blade of steel (anciently also of bronze) having the edge on the inner side of the curve, with a short handle or haft, for cutting with the right hand grain or grass which is grasped by the left.

n. A sickle-shaped sharp-edged spur or gaff formerly used in cock-fighting.

n. In embryology, a crescentie thickening at the posterior edge of the blastodisc in certain vertebrate embryos with meroblastic eggs, such as the fishes and reptiles.

n. A crescentie whitish area in the choroid commonly observed in cases of myopia.

n. One of the arms; which support the yarn guide-wire, or faller, on the spindle-carriage of a spinning-mule: so named from its shape.

n. A sickle-feather.

n. an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle

"Nutrition supplementation studies in sickle cell disease"

edge tool   

the sickle    scythe   

hammer and sickle    sickle cell anaemia    sickle-cell anaemia    sickle-cell anemia   

reap    Leo   

sickler   

reaping hook    reap hook   

Mikel    Nicol    brickle    ferronickel    fickle    mickle    nickel    nickle    pickle    stickle   

sickle-cell    recessive    hemolytic    long-handled    long-bladed