Definition of Hammer and sickle

1. Noun. The emblem on the flag of the Soviet Union.

Generic synonyms: Allegory, Emblem

Definition of Hammer and sickle

1. Noun. in Soviet iconography, the symbols of industry and agriculture ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hammer And Sickle

hamlike
hammada
hammadas
hammal
hammals
hammam
hammams
hamman-rich syndrome
hamman sign
hammarite
hammed
hammed up
hammer
hammer-on
hammer-ons
hammer and sickle (current term)
hammer and tongs
hammer dulcimer
hammer finger
hammer headline
hammer home
hammer in
hammer nose
hammer out
hammer throw
hammerable
hammercloth
hammercloths
hammered

Literary usage of Hammer and sickle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"... me Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the bomb, was completed in May, FLAG OF THE USSR—Red, with Dve-pointed «tar above hammer and sickle. I9S*. ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"There is the red and black of the FAI, and CNT, the red with joined hands of the UGT (Caballero Socialists), the hammer and sickle of the Catalan Communists ..."

3. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"... crowned with the party emblems of the hammer and sickle, represented the Soviet flag. Thus, this pavilion was simultaneously a flag, ‘church', ..."

4. Cry of the Phoenix by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1995)
"The Stars and Stripes are intertwined with the Soviet Red—complete with its hammer and sickle, a symbol of human suffering and mass genocide for over 70 ..."

5. A Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age: In the Department of British by Charles Hercules Read (1904)
"The only important classes of implements not represented in the find were the dagger, shield, hammer, and sickle. Barbed spear-heads like that from Essex ..."

6. Human Rights in Moldova: The Turbulent Dniester by Erika Dailey (1993)
"... while some forty-four miles away to the east the hammer and sickle emblem crowns the city hall in Tiraspol', the self-styled capital of the DMR. ..."

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