資料來源 : pyDict
長柄的大鐮刀,戰車鐮以大鐮刀割
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Scythe \Scythe\ (s[imac]th), n. [OE. sithe, AS. s[=i][eth]e,
sig[eth]e; akin to Icel. sig[eth]r a sickle, LG. segd, seged,
seed, seid, OHG. segansa sickle, scythe, G. sense scythe, and
to E. saw a cutting instrument. See {Saw}.] [Written also
{sithe} and {sythe}.]
1. An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by
hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp
edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is
bent into a form convenient for use.
The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass.
--Dryden.
The scythe of Time mows down. --Milton.
2. (Antiq.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war
chariots.
Scythe \Scythe\, v. t.
To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
[Obs.]
Time had not scythed all that youth begun. --Shak.
資料來源 : WordNet®
scythe
n : 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
v : cut with a scythe; "scythe grass or grain"