Definition for Sickle:

• of the Egyptians resembled that in modern use. The ears of corn were cut with it near the top of the straw. There was also a sickle used for warlike purposes, more correctly, however, called a pruning-hook ( Deuteronomy 16:9 ; Jeremiah 50:16 , marg., " scythe;" Joel 3:13 ; Mark 4:29 ).

Synonyms for Sickle:

• n.

  •
  • balloon,
  • ball,
  • bubble,
  • bulge,
  • bowl,
  • circle,
  • cone,
  • coil,
  • band.
  •
  • fork,
  • rake,
  • mower,
  • lawn mower,
  • flail,
  • hose.
  •crescent (noun)
  • curve,
  • hornlike,
  • bow.
  •cutting tool (noun)
  • knife.
  •reap hook (noun)
  • reap hook.
  •reaping hook (noun)
  • reaping hook.
  •tool (noun)
  • grindstone,
  • ball-peen hammer,
  • tool,
  • lug wrench,
  • Bow-saw,
  • file,
  • vise,
  • spanner,
  • grapnel,
  • snips,
  • circular saw,
  • gouge,
  • trowel,
  • hoe,
  • Drill press,
  • monkey wrench,
  • crosscut saw,
  • plane,
  • axe,
  • shovel,
  • hammer,
  • screwdriver,
  • coping saw,
  • keyhole saw,
  • buzz saw,
  • square,
  • band saw,
  • posthole auger,
  • pickax,
  • radial arm saw,
  • scissors,
  • tire iron,
  • back saw,
  • cold chisel,
  • shears,
  • hedge trimmer,
  • hacksaw,
  • crowbar,
  • lathe,
  • tin snips,
  • edger,
  • pick,
  • handsaw,
  • mallet,
  • jigsaw,
  • spade,
  • stapler,
  • claw hammer,
  • chain saw,
  • pliers,
  • sledgehammer,
  • punch,
  • jackknife,
  • table saw,
  • calipers,
  • arc welder,
  • emery wheel,
  • drill,
  • welder,
  • awl,
  • bench drill,
  • auger,
  • planer,
  • pipe wrench,
  • miter box,
  • wrench,
  • hatchet,
  • wrecking bar,
  • jointer,
  • machete,
  • ripsaw,
  • scroll saw,
  • wedge,
  • spoke shave.

• v.

  •cut (verb)
  • dissect,
  • hack,
  • sliver,
  • scarify,
  • lacerate,
  • chip,
  • slice,
  • amputate,
  • curtail,
  • gash,
  • slay,
  • fell,
  • bite,
  • puncture,
  • facet,
  • dispatch,
  • hash,
  • part,
  • decussate,
  • separate,
  • slash,
  • rip,
  • saber,
  • notch,
  • saw,
  • slaughter,
  • hew,
  • shear,
  • reap,
  • raze,
  • perforate,
  • slit,
  • dice,
  • chisel,
  • divide,
  • clip,
  • carve,
  • nick,
  • bisect,
  • prune,
  • rive,
  • score,
  • cleave,
  • intersect,
  • penetrate,
  • behead,
  • guillotine,
  • mince,
  • lop,
  • level,
  • dissever,
  • rend,
  • pierce,
  • shave,
  • crop.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • bola,
  • bolo,
  • crescent,
  • cutlass,
  • cutter,
  • edge tool,
  • half-moon,
  • lancet,
  • meniscus,
  • new moon,
  • ripper,
  • sabre,
  • scalpel,
  • scimitar,
  • shiv,
  • stiletto,
  • switchblade,
  • sword,
  • tickler,
  • Bolas,
  • Demilune,
  • Lune,
  • Menisci,
  • Meniscuses,
  • Skiver,
  • Cutlasses,
  • Stilettos,
  • cutters,
  • scimitars,
  • stilettoes,
  • sickles,
  • scalpels,
  • SABRES,
  • SHIVS,
  • skivers,
  • lancets,
  • halfmoon,
  • old moon,
  • concave figure,
  • convex figure,
  • half-moons,
  • cresentoid,
  • horned moon,
  • lunes,
  • rippers,
  • ticklers.
  •Other relevant words:
  • chine,
  • cut,
  • faceted,
  • flitch,
  • hewn,
  • massacre,
  • mow,
  • mow down,
  • punctured,
  • quarter,
  • rabbet,
  • ripping,
  • scissor,
  • scythe,
  • shaven,
  • skive,
  • snip,
  • Chined,
  • Diced,
  • Dicing,
  • Faceting,
  • Flitches,
  • Hacked,
  • Hacking,
  • Hashed,
  • Hashing,
  • Intersected,
  • Quartered,
  • Rabbeted,
  • Rabbeting,
  • Sawn,
  • Sawing,
  • Scythed,
  • Sickled,
  • Skiving,
  • Slivered,
  • Slivering,
  • mowed down,
  • mows down,
  • mowing down,
  • rabbets,
  • scythes,
  • scissored,
  • chines,
  • skived,
  • scything,
  • sawed,
  • facetted,
  • sickling,
  • scissoring,
  • lay open,
  • laid open,
  • laying open,
  • skives.

Antonyms for Sickle:

• v.

  • cut
    combine, create, connect, mend, give birth, close, increase, join, construct, build, unite, sew, bear.

Sickle Sentence Examples:

• I come, for I must obey; do not make me suffer too much in the taking of my heart, master of the golden sickle.

• This tool was only slightly improved as the centuries went by, and to this day the sickle may be seen in use.

Homophones for Sickle:

• saccule, sequella, sial, soil, squiggle, swahili, saucily, showily, sagely, saul, slaw, sill, scowl, slay, sagaciously, socle, sea lily, sizzle, sea holly, sicily, sulla, sialia, salai, sea swallow, segal, szell, sally, solea, seckel, slowly, shelley, solo, squiggly, sex cell, shell, slyly, scale, scull, slue, shale, shekel, silo, sallow, sell, sol, saale, sly, shoal, sego lily, sle, sky glow, seal, skill, Sea Squill, skull, sequel, swell, salah, scilla, shiloh, saxicola, seel, Sei Whale, seal oil, solely, sichel, shale oil, sicilia, sloe, scaly, swizzle, scheele, sula, skysail, secale, squilla, shallu, shackle, silly, seagull, sea kale, seawall, sea eagle, sea gull, sexual, sickel, soul, shockley, sickly, scaley, sole, slew, swill, skilly, scylla, social, shallow, salaah, squall, sale, shill, squill, sessile, shoaly, salal, seashell, shawwal, seseli, sick call, sequela, slow, sage willow, sisal, sully, shyly, school, sea coal, sail, squeal, salol, suckle, swallow, swallow hole, Swale, seoul, scheol, sewellel, shillalah, shawl, SL, squally, shigella, Sea Cole.