scythe

• Outil agricole ou de jardinage composé d'un long manche et d'une lame incurvée, tenu à deux mains pour couper l'herbe ou les céréales en effectuant un mouvement parallèle au sol. Peut aussi désigner un instrument symbolique de la mort.

A tool with a long handle and a curved blade, held with both hands and used for cutting grass or crops by swinging the blade parallel to the ground.

1. Cutting toolB2formal

   A farming tool with a long handle and a curved blade, used for cutting grass or grain by hand.

   Faux (outil agricole)

   • The farmer sharpened his scythe before mowing the field.
   • She used a scythe to cut the tall grass in the meadow.
   • The old painting showed a man holding a scythe.

• Verbe signifiant couper ou faucher avec une faux, ou traverser quelque chose rapidement et de manière destructrice.

A verb meaning to cut or mow with a scythe, or to move through something swiftly and destructively.

1. Cut with a scytheB2formal

   To cut down grass, grain, or other vegetation using a scythe.

   Faucher à la faux

   • The farmer scythed the tall grass in the field.
   • He scythed the wheat before the storm arrived.
   • She carefully scythed the weeds along the fence line.

   Synonymescutmowreap