sickle moon

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English

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""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.""
"The moon is the key. If there is a full moon or a very thin sickle moon, there will be a spring tide."
"One also has to bow to the sickle moon or it will bring bad luck."

From the resemblance to the agricultural tool.

sickle moons (plural)

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