Usually means: Tool for cutting grass, grain.
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  1. scythe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scythe: Merriam-Webster
  3. scythe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scythe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scythe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scythe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scythe, scythe: Wordnik
  8. scythe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scythe: Wiktionary
  10. scythe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scythe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scythe: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scythe: Dictionary.com
  14. scythe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scythe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scythe (Transformers), Scythe (board game), Scythe (comics), Scythe (disambiguation), Scythe (novel), Scythe, The Scythe (album), The Scythe (short story): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scythe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scythe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scythe: Rhymezone
  20. Scythe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scythe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scythe: FreeDictionary.org
  23. scythe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scythe: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. scythe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Scythe: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scythe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scythe: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scythed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
noun:  (historical) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
noun:  (cartomancy) The tenth Lenormand card.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a scythe.
verb:  (transitive) To cut with a scythe.
verb:  (transitive) To cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative, often with through) To attack or injure as if cutting.

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