sickle
Other forms: sickles
A sickle is a tool with a handle and a curved metal blade that workers use for trimming grass or harvesting crops. Put a hammer next to a sickle and boom, there’s the symbol for communism.
Farmers use sickles to clear brush or cut grain crops by hand. In some parts of the world, sickles are also used as weapons and for cooking. The sickle often represents an agricultural working class, notably in the crossed hammer and sickle symbol of the former Soviet Union and current Communist and Socialist parties around the world. Sickle comes from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to cut."
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an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handlesynonyms: reap hook, reaping hooktype of:edge toolany cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge)
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