Sickle

A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook and having a handle fitted on a tang The sickle has one side of the blade notched so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge Cf Reaping hook under Reap...

Sickled

Furnished with a sickle...

defalcation

defalcation [earlier, deduction, lessening, shortcoming, from Medieval Latin defalcatio discounting of debt, from defalcare to cut down, deduct, from Latin de- away from + falc-, falx sickle] 1 : failure to account for or pay over money that has been entrusted to one's care ;also : an instance of such failure compare embezzle, misappropriate NOTE: Defalcation does not necessarily involve culpability or misconduct. 2 : a failure to meet a promise or expectation [the school committee's s did not end with its refusal to submit a desegregation plan "S. L. Lynch"] ...

camachile

a common thorny tropical American tree Pithecellobium dulce having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum...

Falcate

Hooked or bent like a sickle as a falcate leaf a falcate claw said also of the moon or a planet when horned or crescent formed...

Falcation

The state of being falcate a bend in the form of a sickle...

Falciform

Having the shape of a scithe or sickle resembling a reaping hook as the falciform ligatment of the liver...

Hornbug

A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus as Lucanus capreolus and Lucanus dama having long curved upper jaws resembling a sickle The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees...

huamachil

A common thorny tropical American tree Pithecellobium dulce having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum...

manila tamarind

A common thorny tropical American tree Pithecellobium dulce having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum...

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