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scythe
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    (By the way—I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)  (source)
    scythe = a tool for cutting grass that has a curved blade
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    The edge of the scythe shaved off my shirtsleeve and grazed my arm.  (source)
    scythe = a tool for cutting grass that has a curved blade and a long handle that is held with both hands
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    the old man was afraid he would cut the line with his tail which was sharp as a scythe  (source)
    scythe = a tool for cutting grass that has a curved blade and a long handle
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    I cleaned up the tackroom and sharpened a scythe.  (source)
    scythe = tool for cutting grass
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    A few had swords and knives; others brandished pitchforks and scythes and wooden spears.†  (source)
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    During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds.†  (source)
    scything = cutting grass with a tool that has a curved blade and a long handle that is held with both hands
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    Then he was standing in the broad circle of grass scythed away at the base of the trees.†  (source)
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    DEW GATHERERS: workers who reap dew from the plants of Arrakis, using a scythelike dew reaper.†  (source)
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    he began to swing his scythe with that long, even stroke that few American boys ever learn.  (source)
    scythe = a tool for cutting grass that has a curved blade and a long handle that is held with both hands
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    Either way, as I look at him I have a flashback to last night, to the whistling of the air as the clubs came down like scythes, and I feel a rush of hatred for him—for all of them.†  (source)
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    Most of them survived the scything blades.†  (source)
    scything = cutting grass with a tool that has a curved blade and a long handle that is held with both hands
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    We reached the landing field proper, where the grass had been scythed low.†  (source)
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    The four Torc Allta were immediately behind the old woman, curved, scythelike swords in their hands, and three more of the creatures in their boar shape burst through the undergrowth and raced up the branch to assume positions behind Flamel and Scatty.†  (source)
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