scissor vs sickle

scissor

verb
  • To cut using, or as if using, scissors. 

  • To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other. 

  • To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other. 

  • To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. 

  • To excise or expunge something from a text. 

noun
  • One blade on a pair of scissors. 

  • Scissors. 

  • Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack. 

sickle

verb
  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

How often have the words scissor and sickle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )