Sickle vs. Saw

Sicklenoun

(agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

Sicklenoun

Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.

Sickleverb

To cut with a sickle.

Sickleverb

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

Sickleverb

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

Sickleadjective

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

Sicklenoun

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.

Sicklenoun

A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.

Sicklenoun

an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle

Sicklenoun

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

Sickle

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.

Sawnoun

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

Sawnoun

A musical saw.

Sawnoun

A sawtooth wave.

Sawnoun

(obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.

Sawnoun

(often old saw) A saying or proverb.

Sawnoun

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

Sawnoun

(obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.

Sawnoun

(obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.

Sawverb

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

Sawverb

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

Sawverb

(intransitive) To be cut with a saw.

Sawverb

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

Sawinterjection

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

Saw

imp. of See.

Sawnoun

Something said; speech; discourse.

Sawnoun

A saying; a proverb; a maxim.

Sawnoun

Dictate; command; decree.

Sawnoun

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.

Sawverb

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

Sawverb

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.

Sawverb

Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.

Sawverb

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

Sawverb

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

Sawverb

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

Sawnoun

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

Sawnoun

hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting

Sawnoun

a power tool for cutting wood

Sawverb

cut with a saw;

Saw

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.