Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A reaper; a sickleman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
  • noun medicine, informal A person who has sickle-cell disease.

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Examples

  • We have our first sickler the second week I am there.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • The four-year-old girl in this room is an asthmatic; the teenage boy in that bed is a sickler in VOC vaso-occlusive crisis.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • We have our first sickler the second week I am there.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • The four-year-old girl in this room is an asthmatic; the teenage boy in that bed is a sickler in VOC vaso-occlusive crisis.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • Way back when I taught medical students and residents, I would not allow them to call a child a "diabetic" or a "sickler" or an "asthmatic", something I learned from a cranky attending when I was a student.

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