The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SICKLE
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More clues leading to the result SICKLE
- Grass cutter’s absence from work not welcome
- Tool not working maybe left by side of verge
- Harvester’s absence from work not welcome
- Symbol of peasant‘s morbid and empty life
- Doctor likes gripping cold cutting implement
- Second spot in which one drops soft implement
- Strike at last following feeble left hook
- Thing for removing ear with hammer suggests red flag
- Reaping-hook old Sicilian mentioned
- In a tricky situation, forget head of police, take strong hook
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The straight part
We know that "Tool" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tool = sickle.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SICKLE mean?
SICKLE noun- An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
- Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.
- To cut with a sickle.
- To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
- Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
- Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.