scythes
Curved cutting tools
Scythes is the plural of scythe, a long-handled agricultural tool with a curved blade for cutting grain or grass by sweeping close to the ground.
The Grim Reaper carries one.
As a verb, to scythe is to cut with sweeping motions: The fullback scythed through the defense.
Farmers still use scythes in parts of Europe.
Gathering mature crops
- reapingCutting crops for collection
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- hayDried feed crop
mowing · swath · sickle · blade · cutting · fieldwork · peasant · manual labor
Flat cutting edge
- handlePart for gripping
- tangSharp, biting flavor
- curvedSmoothly bent, not angular
- sharpeningMaking more cutting
whetstone · forging · iron · steel · edge · honing · swing · arc
Decreasing or felling
- timeMeasured passage of moments
- transienceBrevity of existence
- inevitabilityQuality of being unavoidable
- sweepingExtensive and far-reaching
clearing · destruction · cyclical · endings · renewal · harvest · culling · indiscriminate
harvest
Gathering mature crops
hay · mowing · swath · sickle · blade · cutting · fieldwork · peasant · manual labor · crops
blade
Flat cutting edge
sharpening · whetstone · forging · iron · steel · edge · honing · swing · arc · ergonomic
cutting down
Decreasing or felling
- timeMeasured passage of moments
- transienceBrevity of existence
- inevitabilityQuality of being unavoidable
sweeping · clearing · destruction · cyclical · endings · renewal · harvest · culling · indiscriminate · swift
Grim Reaper
Skeletal embodiment of mortality
- mortalityState of eventual death
- personificationAttributing humanity to non-humans
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
cloak · hourglass · souls · afterlife · allegory · tarot · imagery · symbolism · fate · doom
weapon
Instrument for inflicting harm
- polearmLong-shafted combat weapon
- peasant revoltLower-class armed insurrection
- improvisedCreated without prior planning
medieval · combat · slashing · reach · militia · uprising · rebellion · Polish · infantry · mounted
- rural lifefarms, village, villages, farming, farmhouses
- farm antiquesbutter churns, milk cans, milk bottles, egg baskets, cowbells
- farm heritagefarmstead, barns, farm tools, farmhouses, barn dance
- pioneer toolshand tools, spinning wheels, looms, butter churns, axes
- AmericanaAmerican flag, Fourth of July, bald eagle, Thanksgiving, apple pie
- farm equipmenttractor, tractors, plow, plows, plough
scythescombine harvesters
Agricultural reaping machines
tractors · riding mowers · threshing machines · lawn mowers · power tools
scythesseed drills
Agricultural planting machines
planters · plows · tillers · seeders · cultivators