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sickle moon en · NOUN

Etymology

From the resemblance to the agricultural tool.

Meanings

1. A crescent moon.
   • 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:
   • "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:
   • 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:

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