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A sickle is a curved cutting tool used in agriculture for harvesting grain crops. It is a hand tool and was used before machines for harvesting. It has a curved blade with an attached handle. The inside part of the curve is sharp, so the user can swing the blade against the crop's base, catching it in the curve and slicing it. Some sickles have a serrated blade like a saw.

A sickle is sometimes used as a weapon. In Greek mythology, Cronus and Perseus did this.

A sickle and a hammer are the symbols of the Soviet Union.

Images for kids

  • BLW Stained Glass Panel (August)

    One of 12 roundels depicting the "Labours of the Months" (1450-1475)

  • The Oldest Sickle, Flint & Resin, Tahunian Culture, c. 7000 BC

    A very early sickle, c. 7000 BC, flint and resin, Tahunian culture, Nahal Hemar cave, now in the Israel Museum.

  • Museum Quintana - Neolithische Sichel

    Neolithic sickle

  • 1255 - Keramikos Museum, Athens - Iron tool - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 12 2009

    Ancient Greek iron sickle, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens.

  • Sickle and throwing knife at Manchester Museum

    Congolese sickle, or Trumbash, (left) and replica throwing knife (right) at Manchester Museum

  • ClaySumerianSickle

    Sumerian harvesting sickle, circa 3000BC

  • Hasiya in khurpeto

    Nepali sickle (hasiya) with its carrier (khurpeto)

  • Sickle33

    Modern harvesting sickle

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