scythe
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English sythe or sithe, from Old English sīðe (“sickle”). The silent c appeared in the early 15th century because it was wrongly thought that the word was linked to Latin scissor ("carver, cutter") and scindere ("to cut").
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] 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, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
- A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
[edit] Translations
farm tool
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blade in the wheel of a war chariot
[edit] Verb
scythe (third-person singular simple present scythes, present participle scything, simple past and past participle scythed)
- To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
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to cut with a scythe
