With a straighter blade, it's a scythe (a knife worked by the whole body).
You have to cut, tighten and swap to get it right. 140 characters is a sentence scythe.
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At this point, scythe pros are needles in haystacks which explains why Kurt Weaver was happy to find Larry Cooper.
When his WeedWacker broke in 2006, he got a scythe, studied the moves with an expert and became an expert himself.
But they still find use in less developed countries, and there are even scythe enthusiasts and competitions throughout Europe and North America.
The scythe's smaller cousin, the sickle, dates back more than 5, 000 years, and was initially made out of rock or baked clay.
Over the last 15 years of military base shutdowns, Trent Lott, the Republican senator, has successfully fended off the scythe for Mississippi.
They have a front lawn, a back lawn, a driveway basketball hoop, and a garage with a scythe hanging on the wall.
"The Cabin in the Woods" doesn't just keep us on our toes, it chops them off at the knee with a rusty scythe.
Then after a great Bryn Cunningham scythe through the middle, skipper Ward was on hand to crash over with Wallace again adding the points.
The scythe consists of a long wooden shaft, with handles on the end and in the middle, and a long curved blade on the other end.
To modern eyes, the scythe may be best known from images of the Grim Reaper and Father Time--or as a weapon used by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In Zimbabwe, the world's second-hardest-hit country, growth has fallen to 1.4% from the 2.4% it would have been without this new, gruesome adjunct to the reaper's scythe.
Men methodically scythe the long grass, backbreaking and slow work.
It's so useful that five out of our top twenty tools--the chisel, the lathe, the saw, the scythe and the sword--are themselves forms of the knife, specialized for different circumstances.
Quick ball off the top of a line-out gave them the chance to cut loose, and a neat inside pass from Larkham gave Gerrard the chance to scythe over by the posts, with Mortlock landing the easy conversion.
Their mouths stopped moving when Corwin began to play, and some of the patients sat down, right where they were, a couple of them on the floor, as if the music had cut through the room like a scythe.
Clad in a black nun's robe and holding a scythe in one hand, Santa Muerte appeals to people seeking all manner of otherworldly help: from fending off wrongdoing and carrying out vengeance to stopping lovers from cheating and landing better jobs.
The Labour Party is full of people who will say in private that Mr Mandelson has treated them less honourably, that in his relentless rise he has been all too willing to scythe away former friends and colleagues who become dispensable.
Philip Lawson, a Suffolk farmer now in his late eighties, returned to the place where, as a young flight lieutenant on a secret mission, he had spied out a potential airstrip and encouraged the local people to scythe the fields and remove the rocks.
In that novel, the eighties were not merely a discrete historical period and so the book was not a historical novel because the fictional material (love of money, excess of all kinds, fashionable drug abuse, political opportunism, the scythe of AIDS) so easily spilled beyond its temporal borders.
As Bell inched his way past 50, bringing up his first half century of the series with a scythe through point, Fleming proved more expansive in pouncing on anything loose and he brought up a fluent 50 with a neat clip through midwicket that typified his innings.
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