sickle feather

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   one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster

   Broadertail feather

Questions about sickle feather

What does sickle feather mean?

sickle feather means "one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster".

Is sickle feather a common word?

sickle feather is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.