Crop loppers

Usage examples of scythes.

Dark smoke rolled up out of the chimney, wheels and rims leaned against the walls, bits of harness, broken plowshares, mended scythes, and such lay about the yard.

Outside the long, high walls, golden waves of ripe grain swayed in the gentle breeze as men with scythes reaped the harvest.

I rode through more than one empty hamlet, and as many where the path was blocked by fallen trees and villagers standing there with scythes and shovels to guard themselves from any who might bring the contagion into their homes.

As the sun rose, men began to arrive, carrying their scythes and rakes.

Men took up their scythes and rakes and piled into the waiting wagons, helping the women up alongside them.

The men with the scythes formed two lines, the spacing of the workers staggered.

After these men had swept their scythes through the rows of oats left behind, the rakers and gatherers began their work.

I reached down slowly, and a fistful of scythes sloughed off some topskin.