Sickle /(?)/

Sic·kle

Sickle

n.
  1. A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.
    When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine.
  2. A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. (Astron.)

Phrases & Compounds
Sickle pod
a kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods.