plural of sickle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sickle

A surname from German. / An unincorporated community in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States.

(agriculture) 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.

(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.

present participle of sickle

The deformation of red blood cells into an abnormal crescent shape.

Furnished or provided with a sickle.

past participle of sickle