Sickle

Definitions

1. An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
2. A surname from German.
3. Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
4. A sickle faether, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domestic cock.
5. The crescent moon.
   poetic

Equivalents

Examples

“Coordinate term: scythe”

“Lou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come⟳, Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes, But beares it out euen to the edge of doome: If this be error and vpon me proued, I neuer vvrit, nor no man euer loued.”

“Oft did the harveſt to their ſickle yield⟳, Their furrow oft the ſtubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive⟳ their team afield! How bow’d the woods beneath their ſturdy ſtroke!”

“Then, ere the silver sickle of that month Became her golden shield, I stole from court With Cyril and with Florian, unperceived.”

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