"sickle moon" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: sickle moons [plural]
Etymology: From the resemblance to the agricultural tool. Head templates: {{en-noun}} sickle moon (plural sickle moons)
  1. A crescent moon.
    Sense id: en-sickle_moon-en-noun-~-TRSWGO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From the resemblance to the agricultural tool.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sickle moons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sickle moon (plural sickle moons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Wendy Elks, Sickle Moon Ghost, page 37:",
          "text": "\"A what?\" \"A sickle moon. It's shaped like a sickle, you know — a tool. There used to be one on the flag of the USSR.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Barry Beck, Cathy Beck, Fly-Fishing the Flats, page 83:",
          "text": "The moon is the key. If there is a full moon or a very thin sickle moon, there will be a spring tide.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis, page 173:",
          "text": "One also has to bow to the sickle moon or it will bring bad luck.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A crescent moon."
      ],
      "id": "en-sickle_moon-en-noun-~-TRSWGO",
      "links": [
        [
          "crescent moon",
          "crescent moon"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sickle moon"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From the resemblance to the agricultural tool.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sickle moons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sickle moon (plural sickle moons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Wendy Elks, Sickle Moon Ghost, page 37:",
          "text": "\"A what?\" \"A sickle moon. It's shaped like a sickle, you know — a tool. There used to be one on the flag of the USSR.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Barry Beck, Cathy Beck, Fly-Fishing the Flats, page 83:",
          "text": "The moon is the key. If there is a full moon or a very thin sickle moon, there will be a spring tide.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis, page 173:",
          "text": "One also has to bow to the sickle moon or it will bring bad luck.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A crescent moon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crescent moon",
          "crescent moon"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sickle moon"
}

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