The use of a scythe was historically called mowing, now often scything to distinguish it from machine mowing. The mower holds the top handle in the … See more

Scythes may date back as far as c. 5000 BC; they seem to have been used since Cucuteni–Trypillia settlements, becoming widespread with agricultural developments. … See more

• 1817 illustration of a Polish peasant sharpening a scythe (drawn by Jan Piotr Norblin, engraved by Philibert-Louis Debucourt See more

• Scythe Network Archived 2009-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, a site dedicated to modern usage, with links to numerous equipment suppliers in North America.
• The dictionary definition of scythe at Wiktionary See more

Although the scythe is still an indispensable tool for farmers in developing countries and in mountainous terrain, the tool has become associated with the Grim Reaper.
In Romania, for example, in the highland landscape of the See more

• Billhook, a version of the sickle used for cutting shrubs and branches
• Death, a cultural personification depicted in some mythologies as wielding a scythe
• Grain cradle, for aligning grain stems See more