Scythe

Word SCYTHE
Character 6
Hyphenation scythe
Pronunciations /ˈsaɪð/

Definitions and meanings of "Scythe"

What do we mean by scythe?

An implement consisting of a long, curved single-edged blade with a long bent handle, used for mowing or reaping. noun

To cut with or as if with a scythe. transitive verb

An instrument used in mowing or reaping, consisting of a long curving blade with a sharp edge, made fast at an angle to a handle or snath, which is bent into a convenient form for swinging the blade to advantage. noun

A curved sharp blade anciently attached to the wheels of some war-chariots. noun

To mow; cut with a scythe, or as with a scythe.

To arm or furnish with a scythe or scythes.

To make a curving movement like that of a scythe, in mowing.

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. noun

A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots. noun

To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow. transitive verb

An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with the concave edge sharped, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use. noun

A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots. noun

To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow. verb

Cut with a scythe verb

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 noun

An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.

A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.

The tenth Lenormand card.

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The word "scythe" in example sentences

The good senator knows once he steps down the black shrouded being with the scythe is waiting for him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was called a scythe, an ancient, curved blade, rusted and nicked but still sharp as hell, affixed to the end of a grip with enough bend in it and enough knobs on it so a fellow could get behind it with his weight and strength and swing. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2009)

Death's scythe is made use of to gather them to their people. ❋ Unknown (1721)

 Having his Black Lantern as part of a Grim Reaper scythe is truly inspired, and even if you don’t know who he is (as most of today’s readers seem not to) you can tell that he’s bad news. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nearly starved to death, she attacks and kills a pig-like creature, only to find that it was being trailed by a pack of what I can only describe as scythe-handed velociraptors with razor-sharp fangs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Outwitting the man with the scythe is a universal activity. ❋ Fusenumber8 (2006)

The silent whisper of the scythe was the only sound he heard, gasping like the laboring death-rattle of a dying person. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1997)

It wasn't that the idea was frightening, though indeed it was frightening that a man should sell his soul to a green-eyed man with a scythe, which is what circumstances were trying very hard to suggest had happened. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952- (1988)

The owner of the scythe was the first to try his fortune and test his father's advice. ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

The scythe was their farming-implement to cut such coarse hay as grew in the bottoms near rivers. ❋ Various (1841)

Keri did such a super job on them with the little throwing star and the fimo scythe which isn't in the photo, but you can imagine! ❋ Unknown (2008)

A guadaña is the kind of scythe the robed "Death" carries around when he comes to take you away. ❋ Unknown (2002)

a scythe is the _snead_; the two handles are the _nibs_. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

Probably the Leofwin who had lands in Bourne.] -- that is, the scythe, so called, "because when he was mowing all alone, and twenty country folk set on him with pitchforks and javelins, he slew and wounded almost every one, sweeping his scythe among them as one that moweth"; and Wluncus the ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

I think I have told you that Walter is sweeping the firmament with a feather like a maypole and indenting the pavement with a sword like a scythe -- in other words, he has become a whiskered hussar in the 18th Dragoons. " ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

If your costume requires the use of a scythe or a pitchfork or some kind of weapon … the key here is REALISM. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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