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The German Renaissance scythe sword, the Greek and Roman harpe and the Egyptian khopesh were scythes or sickles modified as weapons or symbols of authority. An improvised conversion of the agricultural scythe to a war scythe by re-attaching the blade parallel to the snaith, similar to a bill , has also been used throughout history as a weapon.
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 infantry melee weapon. The blade of a war scythe has regularly proportioned flats, a thickness comparable to that of a spear or sword blade ...
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".
Grim Reaper's scythe, a large scythe wielded by the Grim Reaper. Scythe of Father Time , during the Renaissance, Father Time was depicted as wielding the harvesting scythe, and became the representative of the cruel and unrelenting flow of time which, in the end, cuts down all things.
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.
Modern bayonets are often intended to be used in a dual role as both a combat knife and knife bayonet. [4] Improvised edged weapons were extensively used in trench warfare of the First World War ; for example, an entrenching tool might be modified to take an edge and be used as a melee weapon.
But when the colonists arrived at Locri, Scythes and the Zanclaeans were engaged in hostilities against the Sicels. Meanwhile, the Samians were persuaded by Anaxilas of Rhegium to take advantage of Scythes' absence, and occupy the city of Zancle itself. In response, Scythes asked for the assistance of his ally, Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela.
Isaiah chose the scythe shop and moved to The Hollow with his wife. Six years later he took over the business and began increasing production. In 1851, Blood joined up with two other businessmen and built an axe factory a short distance downstream, and within a year became the sole owner.