sick·le /ˈsɪkəl/
鐮刀
sick·le /ˈsɪkəl/ 名詞
鐮形潔治器,鐮刀,鐮狀聚繖花序
Sic·kle n.
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.
When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. --Shak.
2. Astron. A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.
Sickle pod Bot., a kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods.
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sickle
n : an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade
and a short handle [syn: reaping hook, reap hook]
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).