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Webster 1913 Edition

Sythe

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Syth

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Sythe

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p
rep.
,
adv.
, c
onj.
&
Noun.
See
Sith
,
Sithe
.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Piers Plowman.

Sythe

,
Noun.
Scythe.
[Obs. or R.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Sythe

SYTHE

,
Noun.
[Heb. an ax.]
1.
An instrument for mowing grass, or cutting other grain or vegetables. It consists of a long curving blade with a sharp edge, made fast to a handle, which in New England is called a snath, and which is bent into a convenient form for swinging the blade to advantage. The blade is hung to the snath at an acute angle.
In mythology, Saturn or Time is represented with a sythe, the emblem of destruction.
2.
The curved sharp blade used anciently in war chariots.

SYTHE

,
Verb.
T.
To mow. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

sythe

sythe

English

Noun

sythe ‎(plural sythes)

  1. Obsolete form of scythe.

Verb

sythe ‎(third-person singular simple present sythes, present participle sything, simple past and past participle sythed)

  1. Obsolete form of scythe.

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