(agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle. / (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.

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

To hiss. / To speak with a hissing sound.

(rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.

(rail transport) To divert (a locomotive or train) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.

A tiger of a specific Panthera tigris tigris population, now confined to Outer Manchuria in Russia.

A Catholic sacrament in which a priest anoints a sick or dying person with oil and prays for his salvation. It was previously known as extreme unction and the last rites.

A step to the side. / A physical motion or metaphorical act to avoid or dodge something.

(intransitive) To step to the side. / (transitive, figuratively) To avoid or dodge.

(organic chemistry) That part of a molecule attached to some core structure; a radical.