bolt cutter vs sickle

bolt cutter

noun
  • A metal tool, resembling a large pair of pliers, used to cut or sheer bolts. 

sickle

noun
  • An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops. 

  • Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock. 

adj
  • Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped. 

verb
  • Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape. 

  • To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape. 

  • To cut with a sickle. 

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