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How to pronounce scythe in English?

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Type Words
Type of edge tool
Type Words
Type of cut down, mow


scythe grass or grain.

Examples of scythe

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A shelf hangs on the west wall along with a scythe, a sword, a saddle, and boot.
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Ray Warner uses a scythe to cut grass on his family's Madera County flower farm.
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The crowd on the grassy knoll looked like it had been swept with a giant scythe.
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Death takes a week from her ordinary duties, leaving her scythe to handle things.
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No doubt calloused hands with brawny arms once swung the scythe back on the farm.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The events which have no name scythe through the valley like invisible reapers.
From the guardian.co.uk
She says she wants to take a scythe to California's business-hobbling regulations.
From the economist.com
Your weapons include Death's scythe and a cross that Beatrice once gave us a gift.
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The whetstone hisses, and the scythe itself makes a long low sighing in the grass.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • 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
  • Cut with a scythe; "scythe grass or grain"
  • A scythe (Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1933: Scythe) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass, reaping crops, or reaping people (i.e. the Grim Reaper). ...
  • S.C.Y.T.H.E. was a fictional terrorist organization which appeared in DC Comics. Their first and only appearances were in Wonder Woman # 244-245. The group was created by Jack C. Harris and Jose Delbo.
  • Mini-Cons are a human-sized race and faction of power-enhancing transforming robots in the universe and its sequels, one of the assorted universes in Transformers fiction. ...
  • The Scythe is the fourth studio album by Italian folk metal band Elvenking. The Scythe was released on September 14, 2007 through AFM Records in all European countries, and November 7 in the USA by Candlelight Records.
  • "The Scythe" is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the July, 1943 issue of Weird Tales. It was first collected in Bradbury's anthology Dark Carnival and later collected in The October Country and The Stories of Ray Bradbury.
  • Scythes (Gr. '''''') was tyrant or ruler of Zancle in Sicily. He was appointed to that post in about 494 BC by Hippocrates of Gela.
  • 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; To cut with a scythe; ...