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語源

From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from 古期英語 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.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkl̩/
• 韻: -ɪkəl
• ハイフネーション: sic‧kle

名詞

sickle (複数形 sickles)

1. (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
2. Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.

同意語

• reap hook
• reaping hook

等位語

• scythe

派生語

• sickle cell
• hammer and sickle
• moonsickle

Further reading

• Sickle on Wikipedia.

動詞

sickle (三人称単数 現在形 sickles, 現在分詞 sickling, 過去形および過去分詞形 sickled)

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

派生語

• (他動詞: to deform): sickler

形容詞

sickle (comparative more sickle, superlative most sickle)

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

   a sickle moon

派生語

• sickle cell anaemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia

アナグラム

• Celiks, Eslick, Ickles, Leicks, ickles