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scythe
[ sahyth ]
noun
- an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
verb (used with object)
- to cut or mow with a scythe.
scythe
/ saɪð /
noun
- a manual implement for cutting grass, etc, having a long handle held with both hands and a curved sharpened blade that moves in a plane parallel to the ground
verb
- tr to cut (grass, etc) with a scythe
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Derived Forms
- ˈscytheˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- scytheless adjective
- scythelike adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of scythe1
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Example Sentences
He lived in a big suburban mansion in Weybridge and he was sharp as a scythe.
Scott lay dead in his garage, stabbed repeatedly by his own scythe.
Thickets were swept as with a great jagged scythe by the leaden hail which swept through them.
I have no objection to any of these being edited, say with a scythe, and reproduced.
Across the fields came the sharpening of a scythe, the cry of the grasshoppers, and the sound of a mill-wheel arose near by.
The French live very thoroughly, but when they die they die 316 thoroughly too, and their cemeteries confess the scythe.
There he found the unlucky Pyramus lying on the ground, with the point of the scythe right through his neck.
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