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  • adjective Armed with scythes, as a chariot.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of scythe.
  • adjective Armed with scythes.

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Examples

  • In front of their line, at considerable intervals from each other, were stationed the chariots called scythed chariots; they had scythes projecting obliquely from the axletree, and others under the driver's seat, pointing to the earth, for the purpose of cutting through whatever came in their way; and the design of them was to penetrate and divide the ranks of the

    The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1844

  • The Persian plan was to use the scythed chariots—deadly vehicles with blades attached to their wheels—first to tear through the enemy and throw the lines into confusion, opening their own hole in the Macedonian army.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Cavalry units from many nations formed the long center of the front line, along with scythed chariot squadrons, thousands of archers, and the elephants the Indians had brought.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Last week I saw burnet roses in the dunes of Northumberland: low scrubby sticks scythed by North Sea winds blooming with constellations of white flowers.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

  • The Persian plan was to use the scythed chariots—deadly vehicles with blades attached to their wheels—first to tear through the enemy and throw the lines into confusion, opening their own hole in the Macedonian army.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • He's just scythed through Adriano on the edge of the area, bringing him down, but the referee played the advantage.

    Real Madrid v Barcelona – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2012

  • The lifetime paratrooper who explained Buford's tactics to me with clinical expertise tears up at the Antietam "Cornfield," where Joseph Hooker's men marched through rows of ripe corn in the mist of a September sunrise and were scythed down just as neatly.

    Refighting the Battle of Gettysburg Thomas Donnelly 2011

  • Cavalry units from many nations formed the long center of the front line, along with scythed chariot squadrons, thousands of archers, and the elephants the Indians had brought.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The descriptions one has so often seen, of entire ranks and files of British infantry lying dead almost symmetrically, like so much freshly scythed wheat, are all true.

    The Pity of War 2009

  • The descriptions one has so often seen, of entire ranks and files of British infantry lying dead almost symmetrically, like so much freshly scythed wheat, are all true.

    The Pity of War 2009

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