scythe

noun

1. 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.

   “And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.”

   “Early next morning the gudewife took a scythe on her shoulder, and went out in the fields with the hay-mowers to mow.”

2. (historical)A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
3. The tenth Lenormand card.

verb

1. (intransitive)To use a scythe.
2. (transitive)To cut with a scythe.
3. (transitive)To cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
4. (figuratively, intransitive, often)To attack or injure as if cutting.

   “The boy began to keen, and the high-pitched noise scythed through Song's head.”

   “The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.”