sickle

(Inglese)

Noun

1. An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
2. Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
3. (poetic) Anything resembling a sickle, especially:

Verb

1. (rare, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
2. (intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
3. (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape, to cause to sickle.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈsɪkl̩/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: sikel

Ereditato da inglese antico: sicol

Affine olandese: sikkel

Affine tedesco: Sichel

In summary

From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.

Concetti

falce

falcetto

roncola

falciforme

falciola

sinonimi

scythe

reaping hook

reaping-hook

crescent

hook

🪝

small knife

machete

reap hook

scimitar

instrument for mowing

sword

billhook

bill-hook

pruning-knife

cutterbar

reaping instrument

falx

cutting knife

knife bar

apparatus cutting

bill

scythe-blade

colter

cut

cutlass

ghost

👻

knife

🔪

oppress

pare

reaping

shears

Traduzioni

faucille

Sichel

hoz

sierp

sikkel

δρεπάνι

foice

orak

zicht

falç

falx

serpe

faux

zeis

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