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Scythe vs Ax - What's the difference?

scythe | ax |

As nouns the difference between scythe and ax

is that scythe is an instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with the concave edge sharped, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use while ax is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As verbs the difference between scythe and ax

is that scythe is to cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow while ax is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

scythe

English

(wikipedia scythe)

Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic) * (l) (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with the concave edge sharped, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
  • A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.

    • Verb

    (scyth)
  • To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.

    • Anagrams

    *

    ax

    English

    Etymology 1

    See .

    Noun

    (es)
  • (label)

    • Verb

    (es)

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) acsian, showing metathesis from ascian. The regular literary form until circa 1600.

    Verb

    (es)
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
    • When they were come togedder, they axed off hym, sayinge: Master wilt thou at this tyme restore agayne the kyngdom of israhel?
  • * 1979 , (Verna Mae Slone), What My Heart Wants to Tell , Kentucky 1988, p. 18:
  • *:‘I axed him if he knowed the way and he said he had not fergitten the lay of the land.’
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