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Kama (tool), a Japanese hand scythe used in farming, and martial arts; Khopesh, an Egyptian long sickle or scythe as a weapon; Scythe sword, scythe blade converted to use as a weapon; Sickle, the archetypal forerunner of the scythe; String trimmer, a garden tool for cutting grass and groundcover which uses a flexible monofilament line instead ...
Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass, especially wheat. The first documented reaping machines were Gallic reapers that were used in Roman times in what would become modern-day France. The Gallic reaper involved a comb which collected the heads, with an operator knocking the grain into a box for later threshing. [1]
"The Scythe" is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the July 1943 issue of Weird Tales . It was first collected in Bradbury's anthology Dark Carnival and later collected, in revised form, in The October Country and The Stories of Ray Bradbury .
Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne.Here the individual sheaves have been put together into a stook ("stooked") to dry. A sheaf of grain on a plaque Sheafing machine. A sheaf (/ ʃ iː f /; pl.: sheaves) is a bunch of cereal-crop stems bound together after reaping, traditionally by sickle, later by scythe or, after its introduction in 1872, by a mechanical reaper-binder.
A grain flail. Through much of the important history of agriculture, threshing was time-consuming and usually laborious, with a bushel of wheat taking about an hour. [2] In the late 18th century, before threshing was mechanized, [3] about one-quarter of agricultural labor was devoted to it.
[1] [2] In addition to cutting the small-grain crop, a binder also 'binds' the stems into bundles or sheaves. These sheaves are usually then 'shocked' into A-shaped conical stooks, resembling small tipis, to allow the grain to dry for several days before being picked up and threshed. Withington's original binder used wire to tie the bundles.
For hay, the windrow is often formed by a hay rake, which rakes hay that has been cut by a mowing machine or by scythe into a row, or it may naturally form as the hay is mown. For small grain crops which are to be harvested, the windrow is formed by a swather which both cuts the crop and forms the windrow.
This composition is among Homer's simplest, showing the veteran as the sole figure in a field of grain, holding a scythe. [4] The only pieces of evidence that the figure is a Civil War veteran are the jacket and canteen in the lower right hand corner, in the downed wheat. [5]