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Crescent-shaped cutting tools
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sickles
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Sickles may refer to: People : Carlton R. Sickles (1921-2004), American lawyer and congressman from Maryland Daniel Sickles (1819-1914), American politician and Civil War general Frederick Ellsworth Sickels or Sickles (1819-1895), American inventor Mark ...
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n. (plural of sickle English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: sickle )
Usage examples of sickles.
When that was expended they would use sturdy clubs, sharp sickles, and even their bare hands.
Two of the women began to cut thistles with their sickles, gathering them into their aprons.
Far too slowly, the scythes and sickles and crooks and sticks came forward.
At this time General Sickles opportunely arrived, and instructed me to order them outside the camp, which I did, amidst the loud cheers of our soldiers.
A hundred islanders were advancing across it in a staggered row, sickles flashing.
Cradle scythes would have been more efficient than the sickles and easier to make than the McCormick-style reaper, but it turned out that they required both unusual strength and a lot of practice to use.
Part of it was as always, men and some women cutting the yellow barley and wheat with sickles, others following behind to bind the sheaves.
Babylonian organization was well up to seeing that there were plenty of sickles and mattocks.