sickle

An implement having a semicircular blade attached to a short handle, used for cutting grain or tall grass.

The cutting mechanism of a reaper or mower.

To cut with a sickle.

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

To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.

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

A reaping-hook; a curved blade of steel (anciently also of bronze) having the edge on the inner side of the curve, with a short handle or haft, for cutting with the right hand grain or grass which is grasped by the left.

A sickle-shaped sharp-edged spur or gaff formerly used in cock-fighting.

In embryology, a crescentie thickening at the posterior edge of the blastodisc in certain vertebrate embryos with meroblastic eggs, such as the fishes and reptiles.

A crescentie whitish area in the choroid commonly observed in cases of myopia.