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Definition of Sythes
1. sythe [n] - See also: sythe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sythes
Literary usage of Sythes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of by Henry Best (1857)
"When wee mowe barley wee provide for every two sythes a binder, un- lesse it be
... and if the barley be very ranke, if theire chance to bee 9 sythes, ..."
2. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1909)
"Dugan and sythes hurried to the roof. Then Dugan crawled to the edge, keeping
close to the wall ... sythes eat down and took a good grip on Dugan's ankles. ..."
3. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1909)
"Dugan and sythes hurried to the roof. Then Dugan crawled to the edge, keeping
close to the wall ... sythes sat down and took a good grip on Dugan's ankles. ..."
4. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1911)
"Dugan and sythes hurried to the roof. Then Dugan crawled to the edge, ...
Dugan was then hanging head downward over the sidewalk and if sythes had let go it ..."
5. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarchos, Donato Acciaiuoli (1895)
"The force of the Barbarians consisted in horsemen and in their carts with sythes.
• The straight of Thermopyles. Parnassus hill. ..."
6. The Index Library by British Record Society (1908)
"The 6 messuages in St. sythes lane are held of the Queen in free burgage, and
are worth per ann., clear, £5 ««• Sebastian ..."
7. Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of by Henry Best (1857)
"When wee mowe barley wee provide for every two sythes a binder, un- lesse it be
... and if the barley be very ranke, if theire chance to bee 9 sythes, ..."
8. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1909)
"Dugan and sythes hurried to the roof. Then Dugan crawled to the edge, keeping
close to the wall ... sythes eat down and took a good grip on Dugan's ankles. ..."
9. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1909)
"Dugan and sythes hurried to the roof. Then Dugan crawled to the edge, keeping
close to the wall ... sythes sat down and took a good grip on Dugan's ankles. ..."
10. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1911)
"Dugan and sythes hurried to the roof. Then Dugan crawled to the edge, ...
Dugan was then hanging head downward over the sidewalk and if sythes had let go it ..."
11. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarchos, Donato Acciaiuoli (1895)
"The force of the Barbarians consisted in horsemen and in their carts with sythes.
• The straight of Thermopyles. Parnassus hill. ..."
12. The Index Library by British Record Society (1908)
"The 6 messuages in St. sythes lane are held of the Queen in free burgage, and
are worth per ann., clear, £5 ««• Sebastian ..."
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