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Definition of Sickle-shaped
1. Adjective. Curved like a sickle. "The falcate moon"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sickle-shaped
Literary usage of Sickle-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sicily, the Garden of the Mediterranean: The History, People, Institutions by Will Seymour Monroe (1909)
"The sickle-shaped harbour — one of the best in the world — is overshadowed by
the rugged peaks that furnish the background of the amphitheatre. ..."
2. Sicily, the Garden of the Mediterranean: The History, People, Institutions by Will Seymour Monroe (1909)
"The sickle-shaped harbour — one of the best in the world — is overshadowed by
the rugged peaks that furnish the background of the amphitheatre. ..."
3. A System of gynaecology by Thomas Clifford Allbutt, William Smoult Playfair, Thomas Watts Eden (1906)
"Sometimes a sharp-pointed, sickle-shaped hook can be inserted into the fibroid
and drawn forcibly but carefully downwards, us an aid to cutting it up into ..."
4. Elementary Theory and Calculation of Iron Bridges and Roofs by August Ritter (1879)
"THEORY OF sickle-shaped TRUSSES. tions should only be made when they arrive
quicker at the result than other methods. If, therefore, the graphic method is ..."
5. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"The wrist is composed of short and compact bones, and from its inner side there
springs a long sickle-shaped bone which runs forward towards the first digit ..."
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