sickle moon

noun

A crescent moon.

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Meanings

nounsickle moon (plural sickle moons)

plural sickle moons

  1. A crescent moon.

    One also has to bow to the sickle moon or it will bring bad luck.

    2014, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis, page 173
    2 more examples

    "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."

    1999, Wendy Elks, Sickle Moon Ghost, page 37

    The moon is the key. If there is a full moon or a very thin sickle moon, there will be a spring tide.

    1999, Barry Beck, Cathy Beck, Fly-Fishing the Flats, page 83

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
crescent moonmoonsickle

Origin

From the resemblance to the agricultural tool.

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Chicago

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