Sickle: alternatives and connections

To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.

An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.

That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by…

A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which c…

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

A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

Weak; feeble.

An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and…

A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.

A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar…

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a ha…

Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.