How to pronounce “sickle”(verb) in English

exit where he thought there was a filling station and someone could probably arrange for a tow from there. He smiled then handed me a newspaper he carried with him. Apro-communist newspaper with a hammer and sickle in the top corner. "I also want to give you this," he said earnestly, "and I really want you to read it and thinkabout it." I was now more stunned than when the car had died. I realized that I was in the woods in Arkansas