Scythe

Quick meaning: Scythe is a noun meaning (cartomancy) The tenth Lenormand card.

Meaning

(cartomancy) The tenth Lenormand card.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To use a scythe.
2. (transitive) To cut with a scythe.
3. (transitive) To cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
4. (intransitive, figurative, often with through) To attack or injure as if cutting.
5. 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.
6. (historical) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.

Example Sentences

The boy began to keen, and the high-pitched noise scythed through Song's head.

And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

Early next morning the gudewife took a scythe on her shoulder, and went out in the fields with the hay-mowers to mow.

The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.

Word Forms

• scythes
• scything
• scythed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forgery, counterfeit, phony, fake, wrong, false.

Related Dictionary Tools