sicklen.

/ˈsɪk(ə)l/

Forms: α. Old English sicul, sicol, sicel, Middle English sikel, Middle English sikil, sikul(le, 1500s sikell; Middle English sykel, Middle English sykelle, sykyl, sykol, 1500s sykyll; Middle English sekil, Middle English sekelle, sekylle, zekill, ziekle; 1500s sickell, sikkell, sykkell; Middle English sygle, 1500s sicle; 1500s syckle, 1600s siccle, 1500s– sickle. β. Middle English cykylle, Middle English cikle, 1500s–1600s cickle, 1600s–1700s cycle.

Etymology: Old English sicol, sicel, = Middle Dutch sek-, sik-, sykele, siccle, sickele (Dutch sikkel), Middle Low German sekele (Low German sekel), Old High German sichila (German sichel; compare Flemish zichel, †sichel); also Middle Swedish sikil, Middle Danish sig(h)il (Danish segel). It is not certain that the word can be regarded as an early adoption of the Campanian Latin secula, < secāre to cut.

a. An agricultural implement similar in form and use to a reaping-hook, but properly distinguished from this by having a serrated cutting-edge.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased

untrumc825

sickc888

unwholec888

slackc897

unstronga900

sicklea1000

sam-halea1023

worseOE

attaint1303

languishinga1325

heallessc1374

sicklyc1374

sicklewa1387

bada1393

mishalea1400

languoring?c1425

distempered1440

unwell?c1450

detent?a1475

poora1475

languorousc1475

maladif1481

illa1500

maladiousc1500

wanthriven1508

attainted1509

unsound1513

acrazed1521

cracked1527

unsoundya1529

visited1537

infirmed1552

crazed1555

healthless1568

ill-liking1572

afflicted1574

crazy1576

unhealthful1580

sickish1581

valetudinary1581

not well1587

fainty1590

ill-disposed1596

unhealthsome1598

tainted1600

ill-affected1604

peaking1611

unhealthy1611

infirmited1616

disaffected1626

physical1633

illish1637

pimping1640

invalid1642

misaffected1645

valetudinarious1648

unhale1653

badly1654

unwholesome1655

valetudinous1655

morbulent1656

off the hooksa1658

mawkish1668

morbid1668

unthriven1680

unsane1690

ailing1716

not wellish1737

underlya1742

poorly1750

indifferent1753

comical1755

maladized1790

sober1808

sickened1815

broken-down1816

peaky1821

poorlyish1827

souffrante1827

run-down1831

sicklied1835

addle1844

shaky1844

mean1845

dauncy1846

stricken1846

peakyish1853

po'ly1860

pindling1861

rough1882

rocky1883

suffering1885

wabbit1895

icky-boo1920

like death warmed up1924

icky1938

ropy1945

crappy1956

hanging1971

sick as a parrot1982

shite1987

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > sickle

hooka700

sicklea1000

crookc1290

cycle1387

reap hook1388

reaping hook1578

knife-hooka1599

crotchet1833

α.

a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 234 Falx,..rifter, vel sicul.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 29 He sent his sicol forþam þæt rip æt is.

a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 263 Siðe, sicol, weodhoc.

a1225 Leg. Kath. 825 Þu schalt setten sikel forð.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 312 A luyte rondel ase a sikel Men seoth þar-on liȝt.

c1340 Nominate (Skeat) 527 Sarcle, faux et faucil, Wedehoke, sythe and sikulle.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iii. 306 But if he do it smythye In-to sikul or to sithe, to schare or to kulter.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 455/2 Sykyl, falcillus, falcicula.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 7^v He destroyed the vices in suche wyse as the ziekle cuttyth herbes.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxix. 163 A croked yron made after the facion of a zekill.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xvi A hande rake..in his left hande and a sickle in the right hande.

1542 King Henry VIII Declar. Causes Warre Scottis C iv As trew as the allegation of hym that is burnte in the hande, to saye he was cut with a sikell.

1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will 871 Roome for the sithe and the siccles there.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 332 A Sickle, a toothed Reap-hook.

1751 T. Gray Elegy vii. 6 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield.

1796 Accurate & Impartial Narr. Campaigns 1793–4 (ed. 3) II. x. 69 The peasants were preparing to put the sickle to the grain.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 50 The scythes and the sickles of the present day differ hardly at all from those in use nearly a thousand years ago.

1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. 10/1 The saw-edged sickle, the smooth-edged hook, and the heavy sickle employed in cutting beans.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1898/1 The reaping-hook..has no teeth, and this distinguishes it from the sickle.

β. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 77/1 Cykylle, fassilla vel fassicula.1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 88 Cikles, vdd. di.; Sithes, vj.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Falces messoriæ, cickles: siethes.1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 244 Messana was at the first called Zancle, of the crookednesse of the place, which signifieth a cycle.1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 152 Chase evil spirits away by dint Of Cickle, Horse-shoo, Hollow-flint.1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 410 The poor native..gathers the short and scanty grass with his cycle, or hook.

b. figurative or in figurative contexts.

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a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 114 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Gods harvest..is even ready for the sickle.

1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore i. ii. 39 For all Times sickle has gone ouer you, you are Orlando still.

1658 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 208 Be it your care to reserve a sickle for your own harvest.

1718 Free-thinker No. 23. 2 Labourers of every Kind may find Room to put in a Sickle.

1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 10 Each Moment has its Sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous Scythe.

1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 311 In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering, innumerable reapers have already put their sickles.

1868 H. Law Beacons of Bible (1869) 148 Wrath's sickle will do its work.

2. Something having the curved or crescent form of a sickle, in various special applications.

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†a. An ornamental design in metal-work or embroidery.

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†b. An ancient military siege-implement (Latin falx).

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c. A form of spur or gaff for a fighting-cock.

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d. A tail-feather of a cock.

e. An instrument used in lacquering.

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1459 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 188 [Two silver gilt basins] pounced [with knots of] sykols.

1459 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 189 [Two] Auter clothes [with one] frountell..[with divers] Compassis [of] sikels [curiously embroidered].

1472 in Wilts. Archæol. Mag. 11 (1868) 337 A paire of cruettis of silver and gilte, w^th knottes of sikels.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 634 So also doth the ram sometime put forth the sickle, and sometime pul it in, and hide it within the frame.

c1710 in J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne I. 301 A single battle fought with Sickles, after the East India manner.

c1710 in J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne I. 301 One Cock with a Sickle, and 4 Cocks with fair Spurs.

1882 N. Middlesex Adv. 7 July 3/2 Against the insertion of false sickles..the judge of Hamburgs and bantams has..to be on his guard, a good tail..being of special importance in competition.

1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 309/1 The tapper then goes round provided with the..scraping sickle.

f. Applied to the crescent moon, etc.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > crescent

lunary1610

sickle1657

crescent1672

lune1709

demilunea1734

lunette1774

semi-lune1862

1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility v. 128 That secondary and weak light, which the Moon showes, besides her silver Sickle, within her Quarter.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess i. 17 Ere the silver sickle of that month Became her golden shield.

1875 H. W. Longfellow Amalfi vii Far away Sweeps the blue Salernian bay With its sickle of white sand.

g. (With capital initial.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo.

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the world > the universe > constellation > zodiacal constellation > [noun] > Leo > part of

sickle1882

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.)

1885 R. S. Ball Story of Heavens xviii. 383 The Sickle is specially famous..as containing the radiant point from which the periodic shooting star shower known as the Leonids diverges.

h. Embryology. A sickle-shaped thickening at the hind end of the blastodisc of certain vertebrate embryos.

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1903 Proc. Zool. Soc. 2 18 In birds, typical concrescence can occur only during the earliest stage of formation of the primitive streak, i.e. so long as the groove of the sickle and knob is open.

Compounds

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a. General attributive.

sickle-blade n.

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1846–50 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 166 Its long, drooping pods..resemble a sickle blade, or rather a curved sword blade.

sickle-maker n.

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1483 Cath. Angl. 328/1 A sekylle maker, falcarius.

1619 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences Lancelot Symans of Horsmonden, sicklemaker.

sickle-man n.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 134 You Sun-burn'd Sicklemen of August weary.

1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 15 Yet the harvest to the sicklemen Is as a grain to each.

1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Eclogues iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 18 The seasons which the sickleman..should observe.

sickle-manufacturer n.

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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sickle-manufacturer, a maker of sickles.

sickle-sweep n.

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1897 S. R. Crockett Lochinvar xxix. 261 Green flats of sparse grass, terminating in sweet sickle-sweeps of yellow sand.

sickle-teeth n.

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1897 R. Munro Prehist. Probl. 330 He discusses the peculiarities of the structure of sickle-teeth.

b. Similative.

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sickle-billed adj.

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1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 705 Sickle-billed Creeper... Bill an inch and three quarters in length, curved like a sickle.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 75 Sickle-billed Thrush. Californian Mockingbird.

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 523 Rostrhamus, Sickle-billed Kites.

sickle-houghed adj.

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1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 14 To bee (as some tearme it,) sickle hought behinde, that is somewhat crooked in the cambrell ioynt, as Hares and Greyhounds are, is not amisse.

sickle-pinioned adj.

sickle-shaped adj.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > crescent-shaped

hornedc1400

semilunar1598

crescent1603

moony1605

mooned1607

half-mooned1611

lunary1623

lunar1635

semilunary1638

lunated1673

lunulated1705

moon-shaped1709

semi-lunated1726

lunular1728

lunulate1760

sickle-shaped1764

crescent-shaped1776

lunate1777

moonified1795

crescented1818

crescentic1835

semilunate1841

crescentric1851

demilune1885

crescentoid1887

1764 Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 419 There were still remaining several of the suckers..disposed along its sickle-shaped Pinnulæ.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. vi. 61 The sickle-shaped moon is growing every instant brighter in the heavens.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 351 A strongly-curved..vascular plate, sickle-shaped in cross-section.

sickle-winged adj.

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1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds 468 Among the more remarkable species we may note..the Sickle-winged Humming-bird.

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sickle-like adj.

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1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 64 Sickle-like tail-feathers.

1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 287 The close-set plumage of the Swallow tribe, their long sickle-like wings.

sickle-wise adv.

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1876 S. Lanier Clover 100 And curls it, sharp, And sicklewise, about my poets' heads.

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† sickle-bear n. Obsolete an epithet of the god Saturn.

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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Saturn

SaturneOE

sickle-bear1605

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 127 Thou, rich, benigne, Ill-chasing Iupiter Art (worthie) next thy Father sickle-beare.

sickle-bill n. Ornithology (see quots.).

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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > beak or bill > of particular shape > bird having

long-bill1835

tenuiroster1842

sickle-bill1872

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 262 Numenius, Long-billed Curlew. Sickle-bill.

1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 21 All of these have a long curved bill, and include..the Sickle-bills (Drepanornis and Epimachus).

† sickle-boon n. Obsolete tenant-service rendered by reaping (see boon n.¹ 6).

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society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > specific service

bedrip1226

needbedripc1284

sorren1289

penny-eartha1300

corvée1340

plough-boon1388

timber-lodec1400

carriage1423

sickle-boon1438

foreign servicea1475

average1489

castle-guard1576

boonage1610

reaping day1657

reap day1663

archery1691

boon-work1883

bene-rip-

1438 Add. Roll 41659 (MS.) Reddit per annum v. s. iiii d, iiii sikilbons et i [hay]bone.

1438 Add. Roll 41659 (MS.) xx d. tres ob. for hys sekylbone.

1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 290 To John Hunt for sicle bonez, ij^s.

sickle-feather n. (see quots.).

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > parts of > feather

hackle1496

heckle?a1500

sickle-feather1688

saddle feather1854

saddle hackle1854

sickle1882

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 251/1 The Cocks..tail consists all of crooked bending feathers (Sickle Feathers as some call them).

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 25 The sickle feathers of the tail are perhaps equally characteristic of the genus.

sickle-ham n. = sickle-hough n.

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1799 Sporting Mag. 14 186 Sickle-hams or sickle-houghs, in horses, may be compared to knock or nap-knees in men.

sickle-hough n. (see quot. 1799 and sickle-houghed adj. at Compounds 1b(a)).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of legs > other disorders of leg

attaint?1523

brush1710

core1710

sickle-hough1799

grogginess1818

weed1841

thorough-shot1891

1799 Sporting Mag. 14 186 Sickle-hams or sickle-houghs, in horses, may be compared to knock or nap-knees in men.

sickle-moon n. the crescent moon (cf. 2b).

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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > crescent moon

crescent1530

increscent1572

quarter moon1601

meniscus1686

sharp moon1686

sickle-moon1876

1876 J. Ruskin Let. in Hortus Inclusus (1887) 42 Bright morning. Sickle moon just hiding in a red cloud.

sickle-oyster n. (see quot. 1758).

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > oyster

oystereOE

Colchesterc1625

green oyster1667

mangrove oyster1683

pandore1701

Milton1749

sickle-oyster1758

bluepoint1789

native1815

powldoody1819

Red Bank oyster1830

raccoon oyster1834

sauce oyster1851

Portuguese oyster1881

relay1889

Portugal oyster1890

Malpeque1901

Marennes1905

Belon1908

Olympia oyster1908

Pacific oyster1912

Whitstable1940

Portugaise1942

Olympia1961

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster)

oystereOE

oysterfish1611

sentry fish1664

sickle-oyster1758

lion's claw1759

bluepoint1789

ostracean1839

1758 J. Platt Let. 20 Jan. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1759) 50 526 Small oblong oysters, which the workmen call the sickle-oyster, some of them being found crooked.

sickle-pea n. a variety of pea having a curved pod.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant

rouncival1570

garden pea1573

field pease1597

vale-grey1615

rose pea1629

hotspur1663

seven-year pea1672

rathe-ripe1677

huff-codc1680

pigeon pea1683

hog-pease1686

shrub pea1691

field pea1707

pea1707

crown pea1726

maple rouncival1731

marrowfat1731

moratto1731

pig pea1731

sickle-pea1731

hog pea1732

maple pea1732

marrow pea1733

black eye?1740

egg-pea1744

magotty bay bean1789

Prussian1804

maple grey1805

partridge pea1812

Prussian blue1822

scimitar1834

marrow1855

fill-basket1881

string-pea1891

mattar1908

vining pea1959

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Pisum The Sickle Pea is much more common in Holland than in England.

1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 109 The Sickle pea, or Sugar pea, which is much cultivated in several foreign countries.

1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. 576 Varieties of Field Peas... White Sickle.

sickle-pod n. an American species of rock-cress.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers

Raphanusa1398

watercress?a1450

boor's mustard1548

dish-mustard1548

rocket1548

treacle mustard1548

heal-dog1551

Thlaspi1562

candy mustard1597

Grecian mustard1597

Italian rocket1597

knave's mustard1597

madwort1597

mithridate mustard1597

moonwort1597

mithridate1605

wall-rocket1611

broom-wort1614

candytuft1629

draba1629

Turkey cress1633

rock cress1650

shepherd's cress1713

pennycress1714

alyssum1731

arabis1756

tower mustard1760

faverel1770

molewort1770

stinkweed1793

wall cabbage1796

wall-cress1796

awl-wort1797

sickle-pod1846

Kerguelen cabbage1847

sun cress1848

sand rocket1854

wall mustard1904

buckler-mustard-

tower-cress-

1846–50 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 166 Sickle Pod... A plant remarkable for its long, drooping pods.

sickle scaler n. Dentistry an instrument with a curved blade for removing scale from teeth.

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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > other dental equipment

explorer1844

plate1845

rose head1847

plugging forceps1861

plugger1862

rubber dam1865

finger mirror1867

nerve instrument1867

hoe1875

saliva extractor1877

thimble1877

finger-tray1878

scaler1881

matrix1883

saliva ejectora1884

sickle scaler1930

1930 W. H. O. McGehee Text-bk. Operative Dentistry Index 930/2 Sickle scalers.

1956 H. M. Goldman et al. Periodontal Therapy v. 94 The sickle scaler has a blade with two or four cutting edges.

1962 G. C. Blake & J. R. Trott Periodontol. x. 97 Fine sickle scalers are used for subgingival scaling.

sickle-tedder n. a workman who cuts the teeth in a sickle.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > cutting with scythe or sickle > one who cuts teeth in a sickle

sickle-tedder1833

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 56 There is a peculiarity in the handling of his hammer and chisel by a sickle tedder.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sickle
释义	sicklen. /ˈsɪk(ə)l/ Forms: α. Old English sicul, sicol, sicel, Middle English sikel, Middle English sikil, sikul(le, 1500s sikell; Middle English sykel, Middle English sykelle, sykyl, sykol, 1500s sykyll; Middle English sekil, Middle English sekelle, sekylle, zekill, ziekle; 1500s sickell, sikkell, sykkell; Middle English sygle, 1500s sicle; 1500s syckle, 1600s siccle, 1500s– sickle. β. Middle English cykylle, Middle English cikle, 1500s–1600s cickle, 1600s–1700s cycle. Etymology: Old English sicol, sicel, = Middle Dutch sek-, sik-, sykele, siccle, sickele (Dutch sikkel), Middle Low German sekele (Low German sekel), Old High German sichila (German sichel; compare Flemish zichel, †sichel); also Middle Swedish sikil, Middle Danish sig(h)il (Danish segel). It is not certain that the word can be regarded as an early adoption of the Campanian Latin secula, < secāre to cut. 1. a. An agricultural implement similar in form and use to a reaping-hook, but properly distinguished from this by having a serrated cutting-edge. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased untrumc825 sickc888 unwholec888 slackc897 unstronga900 sicklea1000 sam-halea1023 worseOE attaint1303 languishinga1325 heallessc1374 sicklyc1374 sicklewa1387 bada1393 mishalea1400 languoring?c1425 distempered1440 unwell?c1450 detent?a1475 poora1475 languorousc1475 maladif1481 illa1500 maladiousc1500 wanthriven1508 attainted1509 unsound1513 acrazed1521 cracked1527 unsoundya1529 visited1537 infirmed1552 crazed1555 healthless1568 ill-liking1572 afflicted1574 crazy1576 unhealthful1580 sickish1581 valetudinary1581 not well1587 fainty1590 ill-disposed1596 unhealthsome1598 tainted1600 ill-affected1604 peaking1611 unhealthy1611 infirmited1616 disaffected1626 physical1633 illish1637 pimping1640 invalid1642 misaffected1645 valetudinarious1648 unhale1653 badly1654 unwholesome1655 valetudinous1655 morbulent1656 off the hooksa1658 mawkish1668 morbid1668 unthriven1680 unsane1690 ailing1716 not wellish1737 underlya1742 poorly1750 indifferent1753 comical1755 maladized1790 sober1808 sickened1815 broken-down1816 peaky1821 poorlyish1827 souffrante1827 run-down1831 sicklied1835 addle1844 shaky1844 mean1845 dauncy1846 stricken1846 peakyish1853 po'ly1860 pindling1861 rough1882 rocky1883 suffering1885 wabbit1895 icky-boo1920 like death warmed up1924 icky1938 ropy1945 crappy1956 hanging1971 sick as a parrot1982 shite1987 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > sickle hooka700 sicklea1000 crookc1290 cycle1387 reap hook1388 reaping hook1578 knife-hooka1599 crotchet1833 α. a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 234 Falx,..rifter, vel sicul. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 29 He sent his sicol forþam þæt rip æt is. a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 263 Siðe, sicol, weodhoc. a1225 Leg. Kath. 825 Þu schalt setten sikel forð. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 312 A luyte rondel ase a sikel Men seoth þar-on liȝt. c1340 Nominate (Skeat) 527 Sarcle, faux et faucil, Wedehoke, sythe and sikulle. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iii. 306 But if he do it smythye In-to sikul or to sithe, to schare or to kulter. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 455/2 Sykyl, falcillus, falcicula. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 7^v He destroyed the vices in suche wyse as the ziekle cuttyth herbes. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxix. 163 A croked yron made after the facion of a zekill. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xvi A hande rake..in his left hande and a sickle in the right hande. 1542 King Henry VIII Declar. Causes Warre Scottis C iv As trew as the allegation of hym that is burnte in the hande, to saye he was cut with a sikell. 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will 871 Roome for the sithe and the siccles there. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 332 A Sickle, a toothed Reap-hook. 1751 T. Gray Elegy vii. 6 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield. 1796 Accurate & Impartial Narr. Campaigns 1793–4 (ed. 3) II. x. 69 The peasants were preparing to put the sickle to the grain. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 50 The scythes and the sickles of the present day differ hardly at all from those in use nearly a thousand years ago. 1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. 10/1 The saw-edged sickle, the smooth-edged hook, and the heavy sickle employed in cutting beans. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1898/1 The reaping-hook..has no teeth, and this distinguishes it from the sickle. β. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 77/1 Cykylle, fassilla vel fassicula.1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 88 Cikles, vdd. di.; Sithes, vj.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Falces messoriæ, cickles: siethes.1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 244 Messana was at the first called Zancle, of the crookednesse of the place, which signifieth a cycle.1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 152 Chase evil spirits away by dint Of Cickle, Horse-shoo, Hollow-flint.1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 410 The poor native..gathers the short and scanty grass with his cycle, or hook. b. figurative or in figurative contexts. ΚΠ a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 114 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Gods harvest..is even ready for the sickle. 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore i. ii. 39 For all Times sickle has gone ouer you, you are Orlando still. 1658 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 208 Be it your care to reserve a sickle for your own harvest. 1718 Free-thinker No. 23. 2 Labourers of every Kind may find Room to put in a Sickle. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 10 Each Moment has its Sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous Scythe. 1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 311 In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering, innumerable reapers have already put their sickles. 1868 H. Law Beacons of Bible (1869) 148 Wrath's sickle will do its work. 2. Something having the curved or crescent form of a sickle, in various special applications. Thesaurus » Categories » †a. An ornamental design in metal-work or embroidery. Categories » †b. An ancient military siege-implement (Latin falx). Thesaurus » Categories » c. A form of spur or gaff for a fighting-cock. Thesaurus » Categories » d. A tail-feather of a cock. e. An instrument used in lacquering. ΚΠ 1459 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 188 [Two silver gilt basins] pounced [with knots of] sykols. 1459 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 189 [Two] Auter clothes [with one] frountell..[with divers] Compassis [of] sikels [curiously embroidered]. 1472 in Wilts. Archæol. Mag. 11 (1868) 337 A paire of cruettis of silver and gilte, w^th knottes of sikels. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 634 So also doth the ram sometime put forth the sickle, and sometime pul it in, and hide it within the frame. c1710 in J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne I. 301 A single battle fought with Sickles, after the East India manner. c1710 in J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne I. 301 One Cock with a Sickle, and 4 Cocks with fair Spurs. 1882 N. Middlesex Adv. 7 July 3/2 Against the insertion of false sickles..the judge of Hamburgs and bantams has..to be on his guard, a good tail..being of special importance in competition. 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 309/1 The tapper then goes round provided with the..scraping sickle. f. Applied to the crescent moon, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > crescent lunary1610 sickle1657 crescent1672 lune1709 demilunea1734 lunette1774 semi-lune1862 1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility v. 128 That secondary and weak light, which the Moon showes, besides her silver Sickle, within her Quarter. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess i. 17 Ere the silver sickle of that month Became her golden shield. 1875 H. W. Longfellow Amalfi vii Far away Sweeps the blue Salernian bay With its sickle of white sand. g. (With capital initial.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > zodiacal constellation > [noun] > Leo > part of sickle1882 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) 1885 R. S. Ball Story of Heavens xviii. 383 The Sickle is specially famous..as containing the radiant point from which the periodic shooting star shower known as the Leonids diverges. h. Embryology. A sickle-shaped thickening at the hind end of the blastodisc of certain vertebrate embryos. ΚΠ 1903 Proc. Zool. Soc. 2 18 In birds, typical concrescence can occur only during the earliest stage of formation of the primitive streak, i.e. so long as the groove of the sickle and knob is open. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. sickle-blade n. ΚΠ 1846–50 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 166 Its long, drooping pods..resemble a sickle blade, or rather a curved sword blade. sickle-maker n. ΚΠ 1483 Cath. Angl. 328/1 A sekylle maker, falcarius. 1619 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences Lancelot Symans of Horsmonden, sicklemaker. sickle-man n. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 134 You Sun-burn'd Sicklemen of August weary. View more context for this quotation 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 15 Yet the harvest to the sicklemen Is as a grain to each. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Eclogues iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 18 The seasons which the sickleman..should observe. sickle-manufacturer n. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sickle-manufacturer, a maker of sickles. sickle-sweep n. ΚΠ 1897 S. R. Crockett Lochinvar xxix. 261 Green flats of sparse grass, terminating in sweet sickle-sweeps of yellow sand. sickle-teeth n. ΚΠ 1897 R. Munro Prehist. Probl. 330 He discusses the peculiarities of the structure of sickle-teeth. b. Similative. (a) sickle-billed adj. ΚΠ 1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 705 Sickle-billed Creeper... Bill an inch and three quarters in length, curved like a sickle. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 75 Sickle-billed Thrush. Californian Mockingbird. 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 523 Rostrhamus, Sickle-billed Kites. sickle-houghed adj. ΚΠ 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 14 To bee (as some tearme it,) sickle hought behinde, that is somewhat crooked in the cambrell ioynt, as Hares and Greyhounds are, is not amisse. sickle-pinioned adj. sickle-shaped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > crescent-shaped hornedc1400 semilunar1598 crescent1603 moony1605 mooned1607 half-mooned1611 lunary1623 lunar1635 semilunary1638 lunated1673 lunulated1705 moon-shaped1709 semi-lunated1726 lunular1728 lunulate1760 sickle-shaped1764 crescent-shaped1776 lunate1777 moonified1795 crescented1818 crescentic1835 semilunate1841 crescentric1851 demilune1885 crescentoid1887 1764 Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 419 There were still remaining several of the suckers..disposed along its sickle-shaped Pinnulæ. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. vi. 61 The sickle-shaped moon is growing every instant brighter in the heavens. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 351 A strongly-curved..vascular plate, sickle-shaped in cross-section. sickle-winged adj. ΚΠ 1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds 468 Among the more remarkable species we may note..the Sickle-winged Humming-bird. (b) sickle-like adj. ΚΠ 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 64 Sickle-like tail-feathers. 1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 287 The close-set plumage of the Swallow tribe, their long sickle-like wings. sickle-wise adv. ΚΠ 1876 S. Lanier Clover 100 And curls it, sharp, And sicklewise, about my poets' heads. C2. Special combinations. † sickle-bear n. Obsolete an epithet of the god Saturn. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Saturn SaturneOE sickle-bear1605 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 127 Thou, rich, benigne, Ill-chasing Iupiter Art (worthie) next thy Father sickle-beare. sickle-bill n. Ornithology (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > beak or bill > of particular shape > bird having long-bill1835 tenuiroster1842 sickle-bill1872 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 262 Numenius, Long-billed Curlew. Sickle-bill. 1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 21 All of these have a long curved bill, and include..the Sickle-bills (Drepanornis and Epimachus). † sickle-boon n. Obsolete tenant-service rendered by reaping (see boon n.¹ 6). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > specific service bedrip1226 needbedripc1284 sorren1289 penny-eartha1300 corvée1340 plough-boon1388 timber-lodec1400 carriage1423 sickle-boon1438 foreign servicea1475 average1489 castle-guard1576 boonage1610 reaping day1657 reap day1663 archery1691 boon-work1883 bene-rip- 1438 Add. Roll 41659 (MS.) Reddit per annum v. s. iiii d, iiii sikilbons et i [hay]bone. 1438 Add. Roll 41659 (MS.) xx d. tres ob. for hys sekylbone. 1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 290 To John Hunt for sicle bonez, ij^s. sickle-feather n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > parts of > feather hackle1496 heckle?a1500 sickle-feather1688 saddle feather1854 saddle hackle1854 sickle1882 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 251/1 The Cocks..tail consists all of crooked bending feathers (Sickle Feathers as some call them). 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 25 The sickle feathers of the tail are perhaps equally characteristic of the genus. sickle-ham n. = sickle-hough n. ΚΠ 1799 Sporting Mag. 14 186 Sickle-hams or sickle-houghs, in horses, may be compared to knock or nap-knees in men. sickle-hough n. (see quot. 1799 and sickle-houghed adj. at Compounds 1b(a)). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of legs > other disorders of leg attaint?1523 brush1710 core1710 sickle-hough1799 grogginess1818 weed1841 thorough-shot1891 1799 Sporting Mag. 14 186 Sickle-hams or sickle-houghs, in horses, may be compared to knock or nap-knees in men. sickle-moon n. the crescent moon (cf. 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > crescent moon crescent1530 increscent1572 quarter moon1601 meniscus1686 sharp moon1686 sickle-moon1876 1876 J. Ruskin Let. in Hortus Inclusus (1887) 42 Bright morning. Sickle moon just hiding in a red cloud. sickle-oyster n. (see quot. 1758). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > oyster oystereOE Colchesterc1625 green oyster1667 mangrove oyster1683 pandore1701 Milton1749 sickle-oyster1758 bluepoint1789 native1815 powldoody1819 Red Bank oyster1830 raccoon oyster1834 sauce oyster1851 Portuguese oyster1881 relay1889 Portugal oyster1890 Malpeque1901 Marennes1905 Belon1908 Olympia oyster1908 Pacific oyster1912 Whitstable1940 Portugaise1942 Olympia1961 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) oystereOE oysterfish1611 sentry fish1664 sickle-oyster1758 lion's claw1759 bluepoint1789 ostracean1839 1758 J. Platt Let. 20 Jan. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1759) 50 526 Small oblong oysters, which the workmen call the sickle-oyster, some of them being found crooked. sickle-pea n. a variety of pea having a curved pod. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant rouncival1570 garden pea1573 field pease1597 vale-grey1615 rose pea1629 hotspur1663 seven-year pea1672 rathe-ripe1677 huff-codc1680 pigeon pea1683 hog-pease1686 shrub pea1691 field pea1707 pea1707 crown pea1726 maple rouncival1731 marrowfat1731 moratto1731 pig pea1731 sickle-pea1731 hog pea1732 maple pea1732 marrow pea1733 black eye?1740 egg-pea1744 magotty bay bean1789 Prussian1804 maple grey1805 partridge pea1812 Prussian blue1822 scimitar1834 marrow1855 fill-basket1881 string-pea1891 mattar1908 vining pea1959 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Pisum The Sickle Pea is much more common in Holland than in England. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 109 The Sickle pea, or Sugar pea, which is much cultivated in several foreign countries. 1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. 576 Varieties of Field Peas... White Sickle. sickle-pod n. an American species of rock-cress. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers Raphanusa1398 watercress?a1450 boor's mustard1548 dish-mustard1548 rocket1548 treacle mustard1548 heal-dog1551 Thlaspi1562 candy mustard1597 Grecian mustard1597 Italian rocket1597 knave's mustard1597 madwort1597 mithridate mustard1597 moonwort1597 mithridate1605 wall-rocket1611 broom-wort1614 candytuft1629 draba1629 Turkey cress1633 rock cress1650 shepherd's cress1713 pennycress1714 alyssum1731 arabis1756 tower mustard1760 faverel1770 molewort1770 stinkweed1793 wall cabbage1796 wall-cress1796 awl-wort1797 sickle-pod1846 Kerguelen cabbage1847 sun cress1848 sand rocket1854 wall mustard1904 buckler-mustard- tower-cress- 1846–50 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 166 Sickle Pod... A plant remarkable for its long, drooping pods. sickle scaler n. Dentistry an instrument with a curved blade for removing scale from teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > other dental equipment explorer1844 plate1845 rose head1847 plugging forceps1861 plugger1862 rubber dam1865 finger mirror1867 nerve instrument1867 hoe1875 saliva extractor1877 thimble1877 finger-tray1878 scaler1881 matrix1883 saliva ejectora1884 sickle scaler1930 1930 W. H. O. McGehee Text-bk. Operative Dentistry Index 930/2 Sickle scalers. 1956 H. M. Goldman et al. Periodontal Therapy v. 94 The sickle scaler has a blade with two or four cutting edges. 1962 G. C. Blake & J. R. Trott Periodontol. x. 97 Fine sickle scalers are used for subgingival scaling. sickle-tedder n. a workman who cuts the teeth in a sickle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > cutting with scythe or sickle > one who cuts teeth in a sickle sickle-tedder1833 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 56 There is a peculiarity in the handling of his hammer and chisel by a sickle tedder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † sickleadj. Forms: Middle English sikel, Middle English sikkil, 1500s sickil, sickle; Middle English seckle, sekkul, sekyl, seekle. Etymology: < sick v.¹ + -le suffix 1. Obsolete. Sickly. ΚΠ c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 466 Heore beire broþur lazarus was swyþe sikel a man. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. Tab. 269 Olyuys, sikkil, to hele in Marche. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. xi. 139 The tendir plaunte is take anoon,..and sekkul beth the grete ysette. c1475 Cath. Angl. (MS. A) 327/2 A Sekylman, valitudinarius. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kiii/1 Sickle, valetudinarius. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † sicklev.¹ Forms: Old English siclian, Old English–Middle English sæclian, Middle English sæclen, secli, Middle English seccle. Etymology: < sick adj. + -le suffix 3. Obsolete. intransitive. To be or fall ill, to sicken. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > be in ill health [verb (intransitive)] > fall ill sicklec1000 sicka1150 sickenc1175 evil1303 mislike?1440 fall1526 to take a conceit1543 to fall down?1571 to lay upa1616 to run of (or on) a garget1615 craze1658 invalid1829 wreck1876 collapse1879 to go sick1879 to sicken for1883 c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 151 Diu egrotat, lange he siclaþ. a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1066 Ða wæs Leofric abbot of Burh æt þæt ilca feord & sæclode þær & com ham. 1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1154 Þa sæclede he & ward ded. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 41 Leoste..ouwer saule secli sone se ha is vte. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15248 Þa iwarð þe king þere isæcled ful swiðe. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 575 Sche..seccleled in a seknesse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). sicklev.² /ˈsɪk(ə)l/ Etymology: < sickle n.: compare sickled adj. 1b, sickling n.¹ 1. transitive. To cut with a sickle. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > reap or mow a crop > with a sickle sheara1325 fag1807 sickle1922 1922 J. Masefield Dream 13 All golden ripe and ready to be shorn By sickling sunburnt reapers singing staves. 1927 H. E. Fosdick Pilgrimage to Palestine i. 4 The harvesters were sickling golden grain on the Shephelah hills. 1971 Country Life 2 Dec. 1501/1 The English labourer sickles his corn in August, the French labourer has it in by that time. 2. Pathology. a. intransitive. Of red blood cells: to become crescent- or sickle-shaped. Of blood: to exhibit sickling. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > of blood: have disorder [verb (intransitive)] > exhibit sickling sickle1923 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > of blood: have disorder [verb (intransitive)] > disorders of red cells haemolyse1901 sickle1970 1923 Amer. Jrnl. Dis. Children 26 133 The blood of the father..was normal on being drawn, but ‘sickled’ after standing for variable periods of time at room temperature. 1946 Lancet 10 Aug. 204/1 Severely anæmic blood always sickles far more readily than blood which is not anæmic. 1970 R. W. McGilvery Biochemistry iv. 75 Even the cells of heterozygotes will sickle if the oxygen tension is low enough. 1981 Sci. Amer. Mar. 117/1 After cyanate treatment and washing, the AS cells remained competent as hosts for P. falciparum, but now they did not sickle as readily. b. transitive. To cause to sickle. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > have or cause blood disorder [verb (transitive)] > disorders of red cells haemolyse1901 sickle1977 1977 Lancet 20 Aug. 411/1 The desickling agent..reacts with red cells which had been deoxygenated and sickled with sodium metabisulphite. 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