Definition of sickle

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Sickle (n.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.

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Hook :: Hook (n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
Sickle :: Sickle (n.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.
Leo :: Leo (n.) A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle..
Sickled :: Sickled (a.) Furnished with a sickle.
Sicklewort :: Sicklewort (n.) A plant of the genus Coronilla (C. scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods.
Sickleman :: Sickleman (n.) One who uses a sickle; a reaper.
Falcation :: Falcation (n.) The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.
Stubbled :: Stubble (n.) The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle..
Sicklebill :: Sicklebill (n.) Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer..
Reap :: Reap (v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting..
Hornbug :: Hornbug (n.) A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees..
Sickler :: Sickler (n.) One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
Falciform :: Falciform (a.) Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver..
Sicklemen :: Sicklemen (pl. ) of Sicklema.
Sicklebill :: Sicklebill (n.) A curlew.
Sickle :: Sickle (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..
Sickless :: Sickless (a.) Free from sickness.
Sicklewort :: Sicklewort (n.) The healall (Brunella vulgaris).
Sicklebill :: Sicklebill (n.) A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.
Falcated :: Falcated (a.) Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed..
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