Scythe
[saɪð]
Definition
(noun.) an edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground.
(verb.) cut with a scythe; 'scythe grass or grain'.
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Definition
(n.) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
(n.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
(v. t.) To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
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Definition
n. a kind of sickle: an instrument with a large curved blade for mowing grass &c.—v.t. to cut with a scythe to mow.—adj. Scythed armed with scythes.—ns. Scythe′man one who uses a scythe; Scythe′-stone a whet for scythes.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a scythe, foretells accidents or sickness will prevent you from attending to your affairs, or making journeys. An old or broken scythe, implies separation from friends, or failure in some business enterprise.
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Examples
- Gradually the blade of the scythe was made lighter, the handle was lengthened, and fingers added to collect the grain and carry it to the end of the stroke. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Above the blade of a scythe were arranged a set of fingers projecting from a post in the scythe snath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The machine did the work of the original man with the sickle or scythe and that of the cradler, and having cut the grain left it in loose piles on the ground. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Some means besides the sickle and scythe, hoe and plough, were wanted to destroy obnoxious standing grass and weeds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The scythe is still a familiar tool on our farms, but it serves other purposes than that of being the sole means of harvesting grain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The scythe, which is a development from the sickle, enables the operator to use both hands instead of one. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Her knives were twice as long as a scythe, set straight upon the handle. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- 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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