The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scythemen
Scytheman \Scythe"man\, n.; pl. Scythemen.
One who uses a scythe; a mower.
--Macaulay.
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scythemen
n. (plural of scytheman English)
Usage examples of "scythemen".
No view of the ornamental water could be obtained from this, the east front of Chance, but the undulations of a lawn shaved all summer by scythemen were broken by a cedar, and beyond the lawn the stems of beech trees, outliers of the Home Wood, shimmered in wintry sunlight.
It seemed to be empty, but as the scythemen walked through it, cutting the wheat down into a smaller and smaller square, so its inhabitants became more and more visible, anxious, terrified, finally running anywhere to get away from the voices and the blades.