"sickle moon" meaning in English

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Noun

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

Inflected forms

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          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
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        "A crescent moon."
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        "A crescent moon."
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