Sicle vs Sidle - What's the difference?
sicle | sidle |
(obsolete) A shekel.
* Jeremy Taylor
To move sideways.
To advance in a furtive, coy or unobtrusive manner.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VIII
, passage=At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle' to the door, and I now ' sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.}}
As nouns the difference between sicle and sidle
is that sicle is (obsolete) a shekel while sidle is a sideways movement.As a verb sidle is
to move sideways.sicle
English
Noun
(en noun)- The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God.