Meaning of அரிவாள் in English
- A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.
- The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
- A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.
- An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
- A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
- To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
- Armed scythes, as a chariot.
- One who uses a scythe; a mower.
- Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.
- A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.
- The language of the Scythians.
- 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.
- A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.
- Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer.
- A curlew.
- A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.
- A plant of the genus Coronilla (C. scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods.
- The healall (Brunella vulgaris).
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