Sickle vs. Saw

(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.

To cut with a sickle.

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

(intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.

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

Example: ‘a sickle moon’;

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.

Example: ‘When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine.’;

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

a short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting corn, lopping, or trimming.

A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting, or reaping, grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock, either freshly cut or dried as hay. Falx was a synonym but was later used to mean any of a number of tools that had a curved blade that was sharp on the inside edge such as a scythe.

A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal

A musical saw.

A sawtooth wave.

(obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.

(often old saw) A saying or proverb.

(obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief; by thy ~, in your opinion; commune ~, common opinion; common knowledge; on no ~, by no means.

(obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.

(obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.

(transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.

Example: ‘They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;’;

(intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

Example: ‘The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.’;

(intransitive) To be cut with a saw.

Example: ‘The timber saws smoothly.’;

(transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

Example: ‘to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)’; ‘to saw shingles; to saw out a panel’;

(slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)

Example: ‘— Saw, dude? — Not much.’;

imp. of See.

Something said; speech; discourse.

A saying; a proverb; a maxim.

Example: ‘His champions are the prophets and apostles,His weapons holy saws of sacred writ.’;

Dictate; command; decree.

Example: ‘[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.’;

An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing.

To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.

To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.

Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.

To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.

To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.

To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.

a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting

a power tool for cutting wood

cut with a saw;

Example: ‘saw wood for the fireplace’;

A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge. It is used to cut through material, very often wood though sometimes metal or stone.