different between sickle vs hornbug

English

Etymology

From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, si?el, from Proto-Germanic *sikil? (“ploughshare”), of uncertain origin.Possibly a borrowing from Latin s?cula (“sickle”) or s?c?lis (“sickle”); itself from Proto-Albanian *tsik?, or, alternatively derived as a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *sek? (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *seg-, a variant of Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Cognate with West Frisian systel, sisel, sizel (“sickle”), Dutch sikkel (“sickle”), German Sichel (“sickle”). Related also to West Frisian sichte (“sickle”), Dutch zicht (“sickle”), German Low German Sichte, Sicht (“sickle”), German Sech (“the blade of a sickle or scythe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?kl?/
• Rhymes: -?k?l
• Hyphenation: sic?kle

Noun

sickle (plural sickles)

1. (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
2. Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.

Synonyms

• reap hook
• reaping hook

Coordinate terms

• scythe

Derived terms

• sickle cell
• hammer and sickle
• moonsickle

Translations

Further reading

• Sickle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

sickle (third-person singular simple present sickles, present participle sickling, simple past and past participle sickled)

1. (agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
2. (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
3. (intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.

Derived terms

• (transitive: to deform): sickler

Translations

Adjective

sickle (comparative more sickle, superlative most sickle)

1. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.

Derived terms

• sickle cell anaemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia

Translations

Anagrams

• Celiks, Eslick, Ickles, Leicks, ickles

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

horn +? bug

Noun

hornbug (plural hornbugs)

1. A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus, with long, curved upper jaws resembling a sickle, and whose grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.