sickle moon

English

Etymology

From the resemblance to the agricultural tool.

Noun

sickle moon (plural sickle moons)

1. A crescent moon.
   • 1999, Wendy Elks, Sickle Moon Ghost‎^[1], page 37:

     "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, Barry Beck, Cathy Beck, Fly-Fishing the Flats‎^[2], page 83:

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

   • 2014, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis‎^[3], page 173:

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

Anagrams

• moon sickle, moon-sickle, moonsickle