Sickle

What do we mean by sickle?

An implement having a semicircular blade attached to a short handle, used for cutting grain or tall grass. noun

The cutting mechanism of a reaper or mower. noun

To cut with a sickle. intransitive verb

To deform (a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape. intransitive verb

To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells. intransitive verb

Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped. adjective

A reaping-hook; a curved blade of steel (anciently also of bronze) having the edge on the inner side of the curve, with a short handle or haft, for cutting with the right hand grain or grass which is grasped by the left. noun

A sickle-shaped sharp-edged spur or gaff formerly used in cock-fighting. noun

In embryology, a crescentie thickening at the posterior edge of the blastodisc in certain vertebrate embryos with meroblastic eggs, such as the fishes and reptiles. noun

A crescentie whitish area in the choroid commonly observed in cases of myopia. noun

One of the arms; which support the yarn guide-wire, or faller, on the spindle-carriage of a spinning-mule: so named from its shape. noun

A sickle-feather. noun

A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under reap. noun

A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. noun

A kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods. noun

An implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops noun

To cut with a sickle verb

To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape. verb

To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells. verb

Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped. adjective

An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.

Words that are spelled similarly to sickle:
sickle, fickle, pickle, tickle, sicle, mickle, sickly, suckle, nickle, ickle, stickle, sickie, bickle, hickle, rickle, sicke, sickee.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sickle:
thalassemia, anemia, anaemia, hemoglobin, cronus, scythe, haemoglobin, darter, trait, claw, asterix, cell, cystic, uranus, allele, shovel, hammer, fibrosis, malaria, transfusion, blades, claws, wreath, disease, cyrillic, communism, spear, deficiency, emblem, argent, ssr, shaped, harvesting, renal, symbol, crises, blade, toe, pulmonary, mutation, neolithic, inscription, abnormal, flag, peasants, primitive, axe, ears, harvest, shark, symbols, flags, kidney, curved, blood, rays, cells, gene, motto, rows, flint, mice, syndrome, molecular, wheat, sword, ussr, banner, streak, complications, knife, ribbon, diabetes, chronic, coat, socialist, genetic, diagnosis, genes, weapon, grain, grass, soviet, prey, communist, tail, screening, red, stem, shape, hiv, patients, tip, moon, tool, cutting, star, relief, reverse, inherited.

Words that rhyme with sickle:
fickle, pickle, trickle, nickel, tickle, mickle, pumpernickel, nickle, brickle, ickle, dill pickle, stickle, brickell, nicol, bickle, pickel, bickel, laryngoscopical, hickle, ferronickel, dickel, bread and butter pickle, fickel, hickel, sichel, mickel, mikel, rickel, nicoll, pikul, sweet pickle, sickel, nikkel, trickel, brickel, nickell, mikell, stickel, mcnichol, mcnickle, nicholl, pickell, vansickle, bickell, brick hill, ikle, mcmickle, nick hill, nickol, quick kill, quickel, rick hill, thick hull, vansickel, wikel.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sickle:
sharp, golden, small, thin, old, curved, flint, bronze, long, toothed, short, slender, pale, wooden, red, narrow, keen, rusty, handled, moon, balanced, white, straight, bright, primitive, edged, adamantine, huge, crooked, and, serrated, tremendous, jagged, ancient, shaped, silent, socketed, sharpened, rough, broad, bladed, post, tiny, gigantic, fashioned, yellow, broken, ordinary, faint, miniature, giant, pre, soft, magic, rude, mighty, characteristic, blunt, brazen, silvery, bloody, deadly, time, heated, egyptian, merciless, hooked, forgotten, looking, fiery, modified, enchanted, bloodless, pointed, homozygous, restless.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective sickle:
disease, anemia, trait, cell, cells, anaemia, crisis, hemoglobin, blades, gene, patients, moon, shape, retinopathy, hemoglobinopathies, crises, blade, erythrocytes, thalassemia, mutation, knife, haemoglobin, bar, disorders, feathers, hemoglobinopathy, test, yield, diseases, pain, patient, syndromes, allele, scaler, nephropathy, preparation, bending, sword, gloss, screening, bill, keen, flag, genes, syndrome, scalers, disorder, carriers, emblem, blood, hocks, teeth, prep, mower, sheen, formation, shapes, sealer, testing, flints, membranes, ulcers, variants, bills, dance, cut, flags, heterozygotes, mice, handle, anemias, insignia, symbol, rbc, flap, episodes, haemoglobinopathies, pears, screen, clinic, carrier.

Consonant match to sickle:
cycle, circle, sicle, suckle, socle, cecal, siecle, socal, seckel, sokol, secale, secle, sea kale, sea coal, sick call, sichel, sea cole, sakal, sickel, circa il, sake all, sake call, say call, say kill, sec l, sick all, so call, soak all, socol, suk el.

Words that sound like sickle:
sickle, sicle, sicl, sickel, sichel, cicl, suckle, seckel, sekel, secle, cycle, socal, cycl, sigel, sokol, socl, socle, siecle, sakal, caecal, psychal, secale, psychol, circle, skull, seagull, icicle, segal, scull, seagal, seagle, siegel, sickles, stickle, sea gull, seigel, sigle, siegal, skel, segel, sagal, cercle, siskel, circal, skal, siegle, sickels, seigle, sickled, stickel, cica, scul, sicca, cercal, skule, skulle, sea-gull, sea kale, sea coal, sea cole, sicking, hickle, hickel, skill, sucka, speckle, skil, sukkah, sickish, schell, skell, suckles, ossicle, suckled, seca, succah, sectile, seka, ceca, secca, stuckle, setchell, sai kung, chuckle, civil, cycles, heckle, cyril, cycled, huckle, chicle, cecum, heckel, cico, saca, cicala, ceol, civile, cycas, cicale.