sickle
pronunciation
How to pronounce sickle in British English:
UK [ˈsɪkl]
How to pronounce sickle in American English:
US [ˈsɪkl]
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- Noun:
- an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle
Word Origin
- sickle
- sickle: [OE] A sickle is etymologically a ‘cutting’ tool. Like its close relatives German sichel and Dutch zikkel, it originated in a prehistoric Germanic borrowing of Latin secula ‘sickle’. This was a derivative of the verb secāre ‘cut’ (source of English section, sector, etc), which in turn went back to the Indo-European base *sek- ‘cut’ (source also of English scythe).=> scythe, section, segment
- sickle (n.)
- Old English sicol, probably a West Germanic borrowing (Middle Dutch sickele, Dutch sikkel, Old High German sihhila, German Sichel) from Vulgar Latin *sicila, from Latin secula "sickle" (source also of Italian segolo "hatchet"), from PIE root *sek- "to cut" (see section (n.)). Applied to curved or crescent-shaped things from mid-15c. Sickle-cell anemia is first recorded 1922.
Example
- 1. At night , the sickle moon shone in the sky
- 2. A few diseases , such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia , are caused by a single snp .
- 3. The hammer and sickle flag was lowered from the kremlin without fanfare .
- 4. Zoltan csiki : yes , indeed , it had two large sickle claws on both feet .
- 5. The flag flutters everywhere , beside red banners with the hammer and sickle , a reminder that the country is one of the last to uphold marxist values .