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polearm
English
Alternative forms
- pole arm
Etymology
From pole +? arm.
Noun
polearm (plural polearms)
- A close-quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.
Synonyms
- pole weapon
Hyponyms
- poleaxe, pole hammer
Coordinate terms
- spear
Translations
See also
- battle axe
- bill
- halberd
Anagrams
- Palermo, Palmero, Palmore, Pleroma, leproma, pleroma
polearm From the web:
scythe
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic): sithe, sythe
- (Exmoor dial.): zive
Etymology
From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English s?þe, s??þe, si?di (“sickle”), from Proto-Germanic *sigiþaz, *sigiþô, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Germanic cognates include Low German Sicht (“scythe”), Dutch zicht (“sickle”), Icelandic sigð (“sickle”). Related to saw, which see.
The silent c crept in the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).
The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sa?ð/, (some accents) IPA(key): /?sa??/
- Rhymes: -a?ð, -a??
Noun
scythe (plural scythes)
- An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath. [before 10th century]
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12[1]:
- And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
- Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12[1]:
- (historical) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
- (cartomancy) The tenth Lenormand card.
Translations
Further reading
- Scythe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Scythe in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
scythe (third-person singular simple present scythes, present participle scything, simple past and past participle scythed)
- (intransitive) To use a scythe. [from 1570s]
- (transitive) To cut with a scythe. [from 1570s]
- (transitive) To cut off as with a scythe; to mow. [from 1590s]
- (intransitive, figuratively) To attack or injure as if cutting.
Derived terms
- scyther
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Tyches, chesty
French
Etymology
See Scythe (“Scythian”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sit/
Adjective
scythe (plural scythes)
- Scythian
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