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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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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