Definitions for sickle

sickle sick·le

Spelling: [sik-uh l]
IPA: /ˈsɪk əl/

Sickle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in sickle (ceikls).

Definitions for sickle

noun

  1. an implement for cutting grain, grass, etc., consisting of a curved, hooklike blade mounted in a short handle.
  2. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. a group of stars in the constellation Leo, likened to this implement in formation.

Origin of sickle

before 1000; Middle English sikel, Old English sicol; cognate with Dutch zikkel, German Sichel, all ≪ Latin secula, equivalent to sec(āre) to cut + -ula -ule

Examples for sickle

The scythe, the sickle, and the flail were the same as their forbears had used for centuries.

The American pioneers had only a sickle or a scythe with which to cut their grain.

France's Communist party has undergone a revolution and dropped the hammer and sickle from its membership cards.

A new ad campaign paints the president as a communist on health care—complete with hammer and sickle.

From behind the hills peeped the edge of the moon—a sickle of burnished copper.

But there was a twist—the hammer and sickle through the “c” in “Obama Care.”

The shoots are then topped off with a sickle, corn-cutter or similar tool.

Search online for “Obama” and “communist” or “hammer and sickle” and hundreds of images pop up.

The communist part is no joke, either—his business card features a Soviet-style hammer and sickle in red.

The wheat was ripe for the sickle, but there was not a man or boy to (p. 021)cut it.

Word Value for sickle
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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