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say it: sith
scythe is a noun and verb meaning "an edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground". It is pronounced /ˈsɪθ/ — sith. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scythe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.