All 3 Uses

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Moby Dick
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In short, like many inland reapers and mowers, who go into the farmers' meadows armed with their own scythes—though in no wise obliged to furnish them—even so, Queequeg, for his own private reasons, preferred his own harpoon.†
Chpt 13-15
As morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance their scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads; even so these monsters swam, making a strange, grassy, cutting sound; and leaving behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.†
Chpt 58-60
Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths—Starbuck!†
Chpt 130-132 *

Definitions:

(1) (scythe)
a tool for cutting grass that has a curved blade and a long handle that is held with both hands; or the process of cutting with such a tool
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)