Sickle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SICKLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to harvest with a single blade implement
• cut with a sickle
NOUN:
• a short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting corn, lopping, or trimming
• tool with a curved blade for cutting grass or grain
• 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.
• A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.
• an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cut with an agricultural implement having a single blade

Words related to SICKLE

grasshook17 grasshooks18 reaphook17 sickled14 sickles13 sickling15

Words that contain SICKLE

sickled14 sickles13 sickleman17 sicklemen17 sicklemia17 sicklemic19 unsickled16 sicklebill18 sicklemias18 sicklebills19

How to use SICKLE in a sentence

• And I looked and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sitting like unto the son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
• So absorbed was he, that he did not see a woman who a few minutes afterwards knelt down before the same stone, and with a sickle began to cut away the weeds and grass.
• Night was come, and the stars and the silver sickle of new moon beamed overhead, before the meal was ready.
• The father and sons worked with axe, hoe, and sickle.
• It was dull rather than sharp, yet it moved there like a sharp sickle, a sickle that gathered and ground the live flesh it turned in and twisted.
• It was a glorious evening, with a moon like a silver sickle floating over Guernsey.
• There is a Reaper whose name is Death, Who with his sickle keen, Cuts the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.
• He had an empty bottle slung over his shoulder, and carried a sickle.
• The plough is a little better than that of Egypt of three thousand years ago, and the sickle is inferior.
• Vegetables were dug with the hoe, and hay and grain cut with the sickle or scythe.
• If the grass or grain is to be cut, it is by both men and women armed with a rude sickle only.
• When we came out, high in the sunset glory gleamed a silver sickle, reaping roses.
• Beside him, as though she had sprung out of the earth, stood a pale-faced woman of thirty with a sickle in her hand.
• The blood-red tint, thrown by the sunken sun, was gone from the forest, but instead the silver sickle of the moon was rising and shed a radiant light of hope.
• The dark shaft beside me sent up its dank breath of stale powder fumes, and the acrid odor was as the fragrance of a fertile field ripe for the sickle.
• How diversified is the economy of light and heat! That field of wheat, thick, tall and ripe for the sickle, was green and apparently growing through all the months of last winter.
• Sickle above and pick below were gathering simultaneously the layers of wealth that Nature had stored in her parlor and cellar for man.
• I counted twelve women and two men in one field plying the sickle, all strongly-built and good-looking and well- dressed withal.
• Four hours later, as he passed the lower end, an immense torrent was rushing through the channel, and the tall trees were falling like stalks of grain before a sickle.
• Meanwhile she grows from crescent to full disk, to wane again to a sickle of light, and presently to lose herself in darkness at new moon.
• But behold, a miracle! For by the power of the Infant Saviour, in the space of a single night, the seed sprung up into stalk, blade, and ear, fit for the sickle.
• Gather it by hand so that it will bloom a second time, for what you harvest with the sickle blooms no more.
• She went to Joanna, and was furnished with a nice little sponge cake and a basket of sickle pears for Molly Skelton.
• Before ripening, the water is drained off, and the crop is then cut with a sickle, made into shocks, stacked, threshed, and cleaned, much like wheat.
• Butterwick, however, has cut his grass with a sickle ever since.
• In rustic vehicles of all kinds the peasants used to drive past, and men, women, and children kept passing to and fro with hoe, scythe, and sickle.
• The moon, looking like a thin sickle, was resting on the summits of the dark mountains.
• And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
• In Nepaul the stalks, with the leaves attached, often twelve feet long, cut by the sickle, are used as fodder for elephants, bedding for cattle, and as fuel.
• At Orleans wrecks the fortune of the foe! His measure full, he is for harvest ripe, And with her sickle shall the virgin come, And reap the rank luxuriance of his pride.
• Four or five days after sowing, the buds begin to appear above the earth, and almost simultaneously the wheat or barley between which they grow is ripe for the sickle.

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