Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - sickle
Sickle
sickle
n. 1 a short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting corn, lopping, or trimming. 2 anything sickle-shaped, esp. the crescent moon. Phrases and idioms sickle-bill any of various curlews with a sickle-shaped bill. sickle-cell a sickle-shaped blood-cell, esp. as found in a type of severe hereditary anaemia. sickle-feather each of the long middle feathers of a cock's tail. Etymology: OE sicol, sicel f. L secula f. secare cut
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I. noun see: saw Date: before 12th century an agricultural implement consisting of a curved metal blade with a short handle fitted on a tang, the cutting mechanism (as of a reaper, combine, or mower) consisting of a bar with a series of cutting elements, II. adjective Date: 1688 having the form of a ~ blade ; having a curve similar to that of a ~ blade , III. verb (~d; sickling) Date: 1922 transitive verb to mow or reap with a ~, to change (a red blood cell) into a ~ cell, intransitive verb to change into a ~ cell ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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