Usually means: Curved blade, hand-held, cutting tool.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word sickle:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sickle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sickle: Merriam-Webster
  3. sickle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sickle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sickle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sickle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sickle, sickle: Wordnik
  8. sickle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sickle: Wiktionary
  10. sickle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sickle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sickle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Sickle, sickle: Dictionary.com
  14. sickle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sickle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sickle (horse), Sickle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sickle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sickle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sickle: Rhymezone
  20. Sickle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sickle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sickle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sickle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sickle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. sickle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sickle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sickle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sickle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sickle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sickle: Easton Bible

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. sickle: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sickle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sickle: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
▸ noun:  Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.
▸ verb:  (agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
▸ adjective:  Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.
▸ noun:  A surname from German.

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reaping hook, reap hook, slash hook, kama, scythe, reaping-hook, hedgebill, cradle, grasshook, sithe, more...

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scythe, reaping hook, more...

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sickle cell, sickle cells, sickle hemoglobin, sickle moon, sickle shaped, more...

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sharp, golden, small, thin, old, curved, flint, bronze, long, toothed, short

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Similar:
reaping hook, reap hook, slash hook, kama, scythe, reaping-hook, hedgebill, cradle, grasshook, sithe, more...

Types:
scythe, reaping hook, more...

Phrases:
sickle cell, sickle cells, sickle hemoglobin, sickle moon, sickle shaped, sickle bar, sickle scaler, sickle gloss, sickle hocks, sickle cell anemia, Sickle cell disease, sickle feathers, hammer and sickle, more...

Adjectives:
sharp, golden, small, thin, old, curved, flint, bronze, long, toothed, short

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     charcoal,     gunmetal,     pewter, more...



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