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Industries of textiles, or metalworkers making nails and scythes, were shaped like "factories without machines spread out over hundreds of households" according to Shaw-Taylor -- and increasingly produced goods for international markets.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

Using handmade scythes attached to the end of a long bamboo pole, they cut down the leaves at the top of the palms.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2024

Thanksgiving holiday scythes volumes later but there was plenty to keep them busy while they did it.

From Reuters • Nov. 23, 2023

It has been touted as Sjon’s masterpiece, but it lacks the compression, celerity and discipline of the previous novels — those scythes, whose language cut and gleamed.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2018

Too many long to be one of us—and knowing that they can never be makes their longing even greater, for all scythes are apprenticed in their youth.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman