Sickle
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.
Sickle Media
One of 12 roundels depicting the "Labours of the Months" (1450-1475)
A very early sickle, c. 7000 BC, flint and resin, Tahunian culture, Nahal Hemar cave, now in the Israel Museum.
Museum Quintana. Neolithic sickle.
Ancient Greek iron sickle, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Congolese sickle, or Trumbash, (left) and replica throwing knife (right) at Manchester Museum
Sumerian harvesting sickle, circa 3000BC
Nepali sickle (hasiya) with its carrier (khurpeto)
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A rooster holding sickle in the coat of arms of Laitila
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