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A scythe (/ s aɪ ð /, rhyming with writhe) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops. It is historically used to cut down or reap edible grains , before the process of threshing .
Scythemen, also known as scythe-bearers [a] is the term for soldiers (often peasants and townspeople) armed with war scythes. [1] First appearing in the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794, scythemen quickly became one of the symbols of the struggle for Polish independence and for the emancipation of the serfs.
The scythed chariot was a modified war chariot. The blades extended horizontally for about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) to each side of the wheels. The Greek general Xenophon (430−354 BC), an eyewitness at the battle of Cunaxa, tells of them: "These had thin scythes extending at an angle from the axles and also under the driver's seat, turned toward the ground".
A war scythe or military scythe is a form of polearm with a curving single-edged blade with the cutting edge on the concave side of the blade. Its blade bears a superficial resemblance to that of an agricultural scythe from which it is likely to have evolved, but the war scythe is otherwise unrelated to agricultural tools and is a purpose-built ...
Scythes (Ancient Greek: Σκύθης, Skýthi̱s) was tyrant or ruler of Zancle, Magna Graecia, in Sicily. [1] He was appointed to that post in about 494 BC by Hippocrates of Gela.
Like the Scythians whom Herodotus describes in book four of his History (Saka is an Iranian word equivalent to the Greek Scythes, and many scholars refer to them together as Saka-Scythian), Sakas were Iranian-speaking horse nomads who deployed chariots in battle, sacrificed horses, and buried their dead in barrows or mound tombs called kurgans.
Silas Lamson (1778–1855) [1] was a 19th-century American inventor and manufacturer of scythe handles, agricultural implements, knives and cutlery. The business he started in 1837, Lamson & Goodnow, became one of the largest cutlery companies in the United States, [ 2 ] and still exists as Lamson, located in Westfield, Massachusetts . [ 3 ]
Gē with engraved decoration of a tiger, Warring States period (475–221 BC) Eastern Zhou bronze dagger-axe Two dagger-axes (left), alongside four jis The dagger-axe (Chinese: 戈; pinyin: gē; Wade–Giles: ko) is a type of polearm that was in use from the Longshan culture until the Han dynasty in China. [1]