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sickle

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪk(ə)l/

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Definition of sickle

noun

a short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting corn, lopping, or trimming: figurativethe bruise was a dull, greenish sickle of shadow [as modifier]:a crackling frost under a sickle moon