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Definition
a tool for cutting grass that has a curved blade and a long handle that is held with both hands
- She watched her son George scything the grass.2 — Time Passes (88% in)
- She watched her son scything.2 — Time Passes (89% in)
- And now as if the cleaning and the scrubbing and the scything and the mowing had drowned it there rose that half-heard melody, that intermittent music which the ear half catches but lets fall; a bark, a bleat; irregular, intermittent, yet somehow related; the hum of an insect, the tremor of cut grass, disevered yet somehow belonging; the jar of a dorbeetle, the squeak of a wheel, loud, low, but mysteriously related; which the ear strains to bring together and is always on the verge of...2 — Time Passes (90% in)
There are no more uses of "scythe" in To the Lighthouse.
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