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scytheman

scytheman noun: one who uses a scythe; a mower.

Noun

scytheman (plural scythemen)

  1. One who uses a scythe; a mower.
    • Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC
    • "Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of contract."1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page xviii. 219

Forms of scytheman

pluralscythemen
alternative form (obsolete)sitheman

Origin of scytheman

From scythe + -man.

Questions about scytheman

What does scytheman mean?
Scytheman means one who uses a scythe; a mower.
What part of speech is scytheman?
Scytheman is a noun.
What is the plural of scytheman?
The plural of scytheman is scythemen.

Words near scytheman in the dictionary

  1. scythed
  2. scythed chariot
  3. scythed down
  4. scytheless
  5. scythelike
  6. scytheman
  7. scythemen
  8. scyther
  9. scythers
  10. scythes
  11. scythes down

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