Sickle (Noun)
Meaning
An edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- Farmers traditionally use a sickle to harvest grains by hand in the dry season.
- He expertly swung the sickle back and forth to clear a wide swath through the overgrown grass.
- Her grandparents taught her how to wield a sickle with precision when she was a teenager on their rural farm.
- During harvest festivals, ancient sculptures depicting the use of the sickle as an essential agricultural tool are proudly displayed.
- Despite having machinery to harvest his wheat fields, James chose to manually harvest the first section using an antique sickle his father once owned.