ˈsɪkl n. 1 a short-handled farming
tool with a
semicircular blade, used
for cutting corn, lopping, or
trimming. 2
anything sickle-shaped,
esp.
the crescent moon. øsickle-bill
any of
various curlews with a sickle-shaped bill. sickle-cell a sickle-shaped blood-cell, esp. as found in a
type of
severe hereditary anaemia. sickle-feather
each of the long
middle feathers of a cock's tail. [OE sicol, sicel f. L secula f. secare cut]