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sickle

The correct spelling is sickle.

How to pronounce sickle

/ˈsɪkl̩/
noun

IPA: /ˈsɪkl̩/

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The correct spelling is sickle. An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops. For example: "a sickle moon"

Usage Examples

a sickle moon

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
  2. 2.Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.

verb

  1. 1.To cut with a sickle.
  2. 2.To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
  3. 3.Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.

adjective

  1. 1.Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.

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