1. a curved blade with a short handle used for cutting grain or grass
2. something shaped like a sickle

1. to cut with or as if with a sickle

Examples

• The farmer used a sickle to harvest the wheat.
• She found an old rusty sickle in the barn.
• The moon appeared as a bright sickle in the night sky.
• The flag displayed a hammer and sickle symbol.
• He sickled the tall grass around the fence.
• The worker sickled through the grain field methodically.
• Ancient farmers relied on sickles for their harvest.