scythe
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He also cut the hay at the end of summer, initially trying with a scythe - Poldark-style - but ultimately finding a small tractor does the trick in a less backbreaking way.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
This year, the garden staff wielded a scythe, too.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
She quickly wields her talent for sizing up men like a scythe, cutting him off at the knees, or maybe a few inches higher, before he can further ruin her solace.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2023
“We foreshadow what the Wolf will reveal he is later in the story by having his sickle, or scythe, having that same kind of framing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
He was handsome, my dad, with a mustache that tipped down the sides of his lips like a scythe.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Industries of textiles, or metalworkers making nails and scythes, were shaped like "factories without machines spread out over hundreds of households" according to Shaw-Taylor -- and increasingly produced goods for international markets.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024
Using handmade scythes attached to the end of a long bamboo pole, they cut down the leaves at the top of the palms.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
Thanksgiving holiday scythes volumes later but there was plenty to keep them busy while they did it.
From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2023
Mammoths sometimes turn up in farmers’ fields, their tusks curved like scythes abandoned in the dirt.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
Goddard’s crew weren’t the only scythes up for the show.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Girona ended the game with 10 men when Roca scythed down Yamal to cut short a desperate Barca attack deep in stoppage time.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
Nothing could have provided a more suitable host than an area of prairie where native grasses had been scythed away and the ground torn up by metal ploughshares and the hooves of a farmer’s horses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Going into Thursday, United was still an outlier in cancellations, per CNN Business: 13 percent of its trips were scythed as of Thursday morning, while other airlines have seen just 2 percent or fewer.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2023
Jacob Murphy and Alexander Isak each scored twice and Joelinton added another as Newcastle scythed through a porous visiting defence that was already under the spotlight from last week's defeat against Bournemouth.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2023
The long grass had to be scythed and hoed under.
From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park
An occasional scything wind flapped the flags flying at half-staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
Wales restored the advantage almost immediately with Watkin scything through the visitors' defence before finding scrum-half Williams who cantered over.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
Thanksgiving holiday scything volumes but there was plenty to keep them busy while they did it.
From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2023
Raphinha converted his own penalty to give Leeds an early lead, only to concede a spot kick at the other end when scything down Toni Rudiger.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
The interference took the form of scything tusks that ducked below Butler’s guard.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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