scytheman
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editscytheman (plural scythemen)
- One who uses a scythe; a mower.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page xviii. 219:
- "Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of contract."
Translations
editone who uses a scythe
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References
edit- “scytheman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.