Thesaurus / scythe

scythe

synonyms for scythe

See also synonyms for: scythed / scything

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Thickets were swept as with a great jagged scythe by the leaden hail which swept through them.

I have no objection to any of these being edited, say with a scythe, and reproduced.

Across the fields came the sharpening of a scythe, the cry of the grasshoppers, and the sound of a mill-wheel arose near by.

The French live very thoroughly, but when they die they die 316 thoroughly too, and their cemeteries confess the scythe.

There he found the unlucky Pyramus lying on the ground, with the point of the scythe right through his neck.

To handle the plough, and the harrow, and scythe, in the heat of the summer fields.

ALCYONEARCHIBALD LAMPMAN

The fever spared her, but she wilted like the grass beneath the scythe of the mower.

ERNEST LINWOODCAROLINE LEE HENTZ

They fire and Death with his scythe has laid three hundred low.

THE BRONZE EAGLEEMMUSKA ORCZY, BARONESS ORCZY

He is generally represented as an aged man bearing a scythe.

He therefore ground the blade of a scythe, and fixed it, with the sharp edge downwards, to the lower bar.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985