SICKLE    鐮刀鐮

CUTTING TOOL for HARVESTING.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for a sickle is lián 鐮／鎌. 2. Bá 鈸 is a sickle with a long handle. 3. Zhì 銍 is a kind of hoe used not for weedig but for harvesting. 4. Gōu 鉤 is a kind of hook-shaped sickle NB: Yì 刈 "reaping sickle" is post-Han.
Modern Chinese Criteria
鐮刀 鐮 鈸 釤鐮 釤刀 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
See also
  • WEEDAGRICULTURAL WORK INTENDING to REMOVE WEEDS.
Hypernym
  • TOOL　ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD. (anc: 5/0, child: 53)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 8.33

  • 漢代無知文化資料圖說 ( SUN JI) p. 4

    • Words (6 items)

    鐮  lián OC: ɡ-rem MC: liɛm 2 Attributions

    The current word for a sickle is lián 鐮／鎌.

      Syntactic words
    • nsickle; round knife to cut firewood with
    鐮  lián OC: ɡ-rem MC: liɛm 2 Attributions

    The current word for a sickle is lián 鐮／鎌.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 刀/KNIFE General word for a knife is dāo 刀. Knives were usually made of bronze, since the Warring States period of iron, and had many functions; they could be used as a weapon (already from the Shang period), to cut meal - particularly meat - or as a butcherer's knife, and to engrave or smooth something. According to the purpose, their shape and size also varied. WANG suggests that dāo 刀 refers only to the knives with a concave blade, which can be conveniently used to cut something, whereas these with the convex blade were primarily used for curving and smoothing, and were called xiao 削; but it seems improbable. Knives with the concave blade are known which for their large size can be used only like a weapon or to cut something; it should be further noted that the knife-shaped coins of the Warring States period, which have the concave blade, are called dāo 刀, and that even small concave knives used in Han times to smooth bamboo books are often referred to as shū dāo 書 刀.

      Syntactic words
    • nsickle See 鎌
    鉤  gōu OC: koo MC: ku 1 Attribution

    Gōu 鉤 is a kind of hook-shaped sickle

      Syntactic words
    • na kind of sickle
    銍  zhì OC: k-liɡ MC: ʈit 1 Attribution

    Zhì 銍 is a kind of hoe used not for weedig but for harvesting.

      Syntactic words
    • n(often saw-toothed) reaping hook or hoe used to cut off the ears of grain in the process of harvesting
    鈸  bó OC: bood MC: bʷɑt 0 Attributions

    Bá 鈸 is a sickle with a long handle.

      Syntactic words
    • nsickle with a long handle current in Han times (see illustrations)
    刈  yì OC: ŋads MC: ŋi̯ɐi 0 Attributions

    Yì 刈"reaping sickle" is post-Han.

      Syntactic words
    • nSong dynasty. Bai Juyi: kind of reaping sickle