sickle: [OE] A sickle is etymologically a ‘cutting’ tool. Like its close relatives German sichel and Dutch zikkel, it originated in a prehistoric Germanic borrowing of Latin secula ‘sickle’. This was a derivative of the verb secāre ‘cut’ (source of English section, sector, etc), which in turn went back to the Indo-European base *sek- ‘cut’ (source also of English scythe). => scythe, section, segment
sickle (n.)
Old English sicol, probably a West Germanic borrowing (Middle Dutch sickele, Dutch sikkel, Old High German sihhila, German Sichel) from Vulgar Latin *sicila, from Latin secula "sickle" (source also of Italian segolo "hatchet"), from PIE root *sek- "to cut" (see section (n.)). Applied to curved or crescent-shaped things from mid-15c. Sickle-cell anemia is first recorded 1922.
双语例句
1. Take the sickle which is lying on the grindstone.
把磨刀石上的那把镰刀拿去.
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2. She bought herself a hoe and a sickle.
她给自己买了一把锄头和一把镰刀.
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3. A bad shearer never had a good sickle.
拙匠无利器.
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4. Sickle-cell anaemia is passed on through a recessive gene.
