What is "scythed"

Usage examples of "scythed".

The red bolts scythed through the underbrush, melted snow, and exploded venerable evergreens.

She spun to shoot the second kidnapper, but Mirax had already scythed a booted foot through the man's knee, dropping him to the ground.

Nrin advanced ten meters into the walkway-a third of the way to the main building-then scythed fire back and forth over the yard.

Torches were dropped as men scrambled for their swords, then more screams filled the tunnel as the axe swept and scythed the milling men.

First Dalnor feinted left and with a flick of the wrist scythed his blade to the right.

Haymakers scythed steadily in a meadow a half-mile away, while much further off, far beyond the blur of fields and woods, dust whitened the sky.

His horse thundered along a field margin, raced over soaking rows of newly scythed hay, then galloped down a gentle incline towards a hedge, beyond which, and across one more field, a long dark copse of trees offered a concealed path back to the road.

The edge of my right hand scythed round, looking for neck or throat, but Kadmin had gone all the way down.

A cupped petal of black glass scythed around with the platform and each time it passed between audience and dancer, the girl was gone and a skeleton danced grinning in her place.

They scythed through the air at supersonic velocity, sharp as scalpels, stronger than diamond.

Several roof girders buckled, sagging down, corrugated panels scythed into the flames.

Her lasers had scythed their way through the tangle of tubes and struts, clearing a broad passage which Joshua had steered the starship along.