Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who uses a sickle; a reaper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who uses a sickle; a reaper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who uses a
sickle ; areaper .
Etymologies
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sickle + -man
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Examples
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There he stood apart and in repose, and yet, by his mere look, lured the man in gray from his story, much as, by its graciousness of bearing, some full-leaved elm, alone in a meadow, lures the noon sickleman to throw down his sheaves, and come and apply for the alms of its shade.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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There he stood apart and in repose, and yet, by his mere look, lured the man in gray from his story, much as, by its graciousness of bearing, some full-leaved elm, alone in a meadow, lures the noon sickleman to throw down his sheaves, and come and apply for the alms of its shade.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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