To make scratches or cuts on.
To harrow the feelings.
To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
To cut with a sickle.
Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.
Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.
An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.