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/ˈsaɪð/ · 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..
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 boy began to keen, and the high-pitched noise scythed through Song's head.
The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.
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Scythe means 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..
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And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
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