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Webster 1913 Edition
Scythe
Scythe
(sīth)
, Noun.
[OE.
sithe
, AS. sīðe, sigðe
; akin to Icel. sigðr
a sickle, LG. segd
, seged
, seed
, seid
, OHG. segansa
sickle, scythe, G. sense
scythe, and to E. saw
a cutting instrument. See Saw
.] [Written also
sithe
and sythe
.] 1.
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.
The sharp-edged
scythe
shears up the spiring grass. Drayton.
Whatever thing
The
The
scythe
of Time mows down. Milton.
2.
(Antiq.)
A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
Scythe
,Verb.
T.
To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
[Obs.]
Time had not
scythed
all that youth begun. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Scythe
SCYTHE
, A wrong spelling. [See Sythe.]Definition 2024
Scythe
scythe
scythe
See also: Scythe
English
scythe (1) (larger) and sickle (smaller)
Alternative forms
Noun
scythe (plural scythes)
- 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.
- A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
Translations
farm tool
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blade in the wheel of a war chariot
Verb
scythe (third-person singular simple present scythes, present participle scything, simple past and past participle scythed)
- (transitive) To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To attack or injure as if cutting.
- 2011, Catherine Sampson, The Pool of Unease
- The boy began to keen, and the high-pitched noise scythed through Song's head.
- 2011, Catherine Sampson, The Pool of Unease
Translations
to cut with a scythe
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