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sitheman

sitheman is the obsolete spelling of scytheman.

Meaning of scytheman

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

Forms of sitheman

pluralsithemen

Origin of sitheman

From sithe + -man.

Questions about sitheman

What is sitheman the obsolete spelling of?
Sitheman is the obsolete spelling of scytheman.

Words near sitheman in the dictionary

  1. sithcundman
  2. sithcundmen
  3. sithe
  4. sithed
  5. sithee
  6. sitheman
  7. sithemen
  8. sithen
  9. sithence
  10. sithens
  11. sithes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sitheman (page history and authors); scytheman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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