sickle: significato e definizioni

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

The cutting mechanism of a reaper or mower.

To cut with a sickle.

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

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

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