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sickles

The correct spelling is sickles.

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noun

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The correct spelling is sickles. An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

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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.

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