ADJ.
cutting, enough, stubborn, together, used
VERB + SICKLE
borrow, don't, fetch, go, hammer, use
SICKLE + NOUN
cell, communism, disease, oxygen, shoulders, symbol, symbols, yourself
PREP.
on, with, without
noun
An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
Coordinate term: scythe
Lou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come, Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes, But beares it out euen to the edge of doome: If this be error and vpon me proued, I neuer vvrit, nor no man euer loued.
Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
Then, ere the silver sickle of that month Became her golden shield, I stole from court With Cyril and with Florian, unperceived.
verb
To cut with a sickle.
Near-synonyms: reap, mow
Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
Even the cells of heterozygotes will sickle if the oxygen tension is low enough.
To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape, to cause to sickle.
name
A surname from German.
Coordinate term: scythe
WiktionaryLou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come, Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes, But beares it out euen to the edge of doome: If this
WiktionaryOft did the harveſt to their ſickle yield, Their furrow oft the ſtubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow’d the woods beneath their ſturdy ſtroke!
WiktionaryNear-synonyms: reap, mow
WiktionaryEven the cells of heterozygotes will sickle if the oxygen tension is low enough.
WiktionaryThe girls who go, sickle on their shoulders, to cut alfalfa for the rabbits.
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