Sickle vs. Scythe

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.

Scythenoun

An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with the concave edge sharped, made fast to a long handle, called a snath.

Scythenoun

A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.

Scythenoun

(cartomancy) The tenth Lenormand card.

Scytheverb

(transitive) To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.

Scytheverb

To attack or injure as if cutting.

Scythenoun

An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.

Scythenoun

A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.

Scytheverb

To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.

Scythenoun

an edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground

Scytheverb

cut with a scythe;

Scythenoun

a tool used for cutting crops such as grass or corn, with a long curved blade at the end of a long pole attached to one or two short handles.

Scytheverb

cut with a scythe

Scytheverb

move through or penetrate something rapidly and forcefully

Scythe

A scythe is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops. It is traditionally used to cut down or reap edible grains, before the process of threshing.