scythe

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The pole of a scythe is the snead_; the two handles are the nibs_.

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  1. noun An implement consisting of a long, curved single-edged blade with a long bent handle, used for mowing or reaping.
  2. transitive verb To cut with or as if with a scythe.

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  • Surely in our dreams we imagine the song of the scythe, and the whir and thud of the loom. —  Countercurrents.org
  • This form typically wields a scythe, and is sometimes portrayed riding a white horse mummified human corpse, later becoming the familiar skeleton in a robe. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • In the hands of a pro, a scythe is just as fast as a motoguadaña (even in the hands of me!) but has other advantages.
  • Under the shadow of his scythe, all men be equaled When darkness enshrouds, hope is extinguished; drought of love, famine of light Desolation, disquiet, at the last moments of life; —  IGN Complete
  • Like a scythe, the truth cut through the sleeping town, while the piercing screams of Matthew's sisters howled over mountains and across wide plains. —  ImpeachBush
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English sithe, from Old English sīthe, sickle; see sek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English sithe, sythe, the proper spelling being sithe (the c being ignorantly inserted after the analogy of scent, scituate, and other false spellings, prob. in this case to simulate a derivation from French scier, saw, orig. cut, scier being itself a false spelling for sier), from Middle English sithe, sythe, from Anglo-Saxon sīthe, contr. of sigthe, a scythe, = Fries, sīd, sied = Middle Low German segede, sichte, Low German seged, sicht, segd, seed, seid = Icelandic sigdhr, sigdh, a sickle; with formative -the (in sense eqniv. to Old Saxon segisna = Dutch zeis, zeisen = Old High German segansa, segisna, Middle High German segense, sense, German sense, a scythe, with formative -ansa, etc.), from Teutonic √ sag, cut (whence ult. English saw, q. v.), = Latin secare, cut (whence ult. English sickle): see secant, section, sickle, saw.
  2. Early modern English sithe, sythe (properly sithe, as with the noun); from scythe, n.
 

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