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sickle

/sik-uhl/US // ˈsɪk əl //UK // (ˈsɪkəl) //

镰刀,镰鼬,镰状物,鎌仓

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an implement for cutting grain, grass, etc., consisting of a curved, hooklike blade mounted in a short handle.
    • : Astronomy. a group of stars in the constellation Leo, likened to this implement in formation.

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Examples

  • When the red hammer and sickle banner was pulled from the Kremlin ramparts a final time 30 years ago, obituaries for socialism were written by the hundreds.

  • Corded mowers are the simplest lawn mowers besides a fly-wheel push mower or sickle and are always ready to slice up some grass.

  • In one trial for sickle cell anemia, doctors remove cells from the body, edit them in a dish, and then infuse them back into the patient.

  • In addition to his clogged arteries, the examination showed, he had sickle cell trait, high blood pressure and a small tumor in his abdomen, none of which was involved in his death, according to the experts and the autopsies.

  • The more active I became, it seemed as though the more infrequent my sickle cell pain crises became.

  • The periodic agony that accompanies sickle cell was joined by the torment of persistent eye infections and repeated surgeries.

  • The communist part is no joke, either—his business card features a Soviet-style hammer and sickle in red.

  • France's Communist party has undergone a revolution and dropped the hammer and sickle from its membership cards.

  • But there was a twist—the hammer and sickle through the “c” in “Obama Care.”

  • Search online for “Obama” and “communist” or “hammer and sickle” and hundreds of images pop up.

  • Then Morfed lifted his arm and began to sing softly, swinging the sickle in time to the song, with his eyes on us.

  • It was an uncanny song, and I waxed uneasy as it went on, and the flashing sickle waved more quickly before my eyes.

  • The song stopped, and the lifted sickle sank with the hand that held it, and the eyes of Morfed left mine and sought the ground.

  • Then our captain—wild, saucy Peg Sickle—bounded up with the cry, 'Crown the captain!'

  • Seems to me this dust is like the grain that is shed from a ripe crop before it comes to the sickle.