The wheat was going to waste, for there were not enough scythes and sickles to cut it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Of these Darius had a force of two hundred, and each chariot had scythes attached to its wheels and to the pole and body of the chariot. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In 1799, Boyce, of England, had a vertical shaft with six rotating scythes beneath the frame of the implement. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The colonists, when they settled in this country, probably brought with them all the European types of sickles and scythes, and out of them evolved the cradle. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Nearly all of these early reapers relied upon scythes or cutters with a rotary motion or vibrating shears. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.