Scythes
[saɪðz]
Examples
- The wheat was going to waste, for there were not enough scythes and sickles to cut it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Of these Darius had a force of two hundred, and each chariot had scythes attached to its wheels and to the pole and body of the chariot. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1799, Boyce, of England, had a vertical shaft with six rotating scythes beneath the frame of the implement. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The colonists, when they settled in this country, probably brought with them all the European types of sickles and scythes, and out of them evolved the cradle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nearly all of these early reapers relied upon scythes or cutters with a rotary motion or vibrating shears. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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