sickle

About 2.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
2. noun Anything resembling a sickle, especially: A sickle feather, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domestic cock. The crescent moon.
3. noun A sickle feather, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domestic cock.
4. noun The crescent moon.
5. verb To cut with a sickle. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
6. verb Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
7. verb To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape, to cause to sickle.

Similar words

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Often followed by

cell and of in cells blades to or hemoglobin

Word family

sickled sickles sickling