scytheman

English

Etymology

scythe +‎ -man

Noun

scytheman (plural scythemen)

1. One who uses a scythe; a mower.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page xviii. 219:

     "Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of contract."

Translations

one who uses a scythe

• Irish: spealadóir m

References

• “scytheman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• yachtsmen