Sickle vs Plough - What's the difference?
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(agriculture) an implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops
(agriculture) To cut with a sickle
To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
An alternative name for Ursa Major or the Great Bear.
A carucate of land; a ploughland.
* Tale of Gamelyn
A joiner's plane for making grooves.
A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
To use a plough.
(vulgar) To have sex with.
To move with force.
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To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
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* Alexander Pope
(bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
(joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
In transitive terms the difference between sickle and plough
is that sickle is to deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape while plough is to use a plough on to prepare for planting.In intransitive terms the difference between sickle and plough
is that sickle is to assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells while plough is to use a plough.As nouns the difference between sickle and plough
is that sickle is an implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops while plough is a device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.As verbs the difference between sickle and plough
is that sickle is to cut with a sickle while plough is to use a plough on to prepare for planting.As an adjective sickle
is shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.As a proper noun Plough is
the common name for the brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major.sickle
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* reap hook * reaping hookSee also
* scytheVerb
(sickl)Derived terms
* sicklerplough
English
(wikipedia plough)Alternative forms
* (US) plowNoun
(en noun)- The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
- Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.
Usage notes
The spelling (m) is usual in the United States, but the spelling plough may be found in literary or historical contexts there.Derived terms
* moldboard plow * ploughman * ploughshare * snowplough * sodbuster ploughVerb
(en verb)- I've still got to plough that field.
- Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
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- Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.
- With speed we plough the watery way.
