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WOTD – 28 November 2016
A sickle(smaller) and ascythe(larger)
No.10: sickles (sense 2.1)

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsikel (alsoassibilated insichel), fromOld Englishsicol,siċel, fromProto-West Germanic*sikilu, itself borrowed fromLatinsēcula(“sickle”) orsīcīlis(“sickle”). Cognate withDutchsikkel,GermanSichel. Remotely related with Englishscythe andsaw.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sickle (pluralsickles)

  2. (agriculture) Animplement having asemicircularblade andshorthandle, used forcuttinglonggrass andcerealcrops.
    Synonyms:reap hook,reaping hook
    Coordinate term:scythe
  3. Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
    1. A sickle faether, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domesticcock.
    2. (poetic) Thecrescent moon.

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Translations

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agricultural implement

Verb

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Amicrograph ofred blood cells of a person withsickle-cell disease, which causes some cells to assume abnormal, sickle-likecrescent shapes

sickle (third-person singular simple presentsickles,present participlesickling,simple past and past participlesickled)

  1. (agriculture, transitive, rare) Tocut with a sickle.[from 1922]
    Near-synonyms:reap,mow
  2. (pathology, intransitive)Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
    • 1975, Robert Warren McGilvery,IV. 75, inBiochemistry:
      Even the cells of heterozygotes willsickle if the oxygen tension is low enough.
  3. (pathology, transitive) Todeform (as with ared blood cell) into anabnormalcrescent shape, to cause to sickle.

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Translations

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to cut with a sickle

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