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A war scythe or military scythe is a form of polearm with a curving single-edged blade with the cutting edge on the concave side of the blade. Its blade bears a superficial resemblance to that of an agricultural scythe from which it is likely to have evolved, but the war scythe is otherwise unrelated to agricultural tools and is a purpose-built ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version ... similar polearms such as the war scythe, ... faussart," which referred to various single-edged weapons related to the scythe, ...
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Stone war club (American) Suburito (Japanese) Sword mace 鐧 (Chinese) Tambo, tanbo (Okinawan) Tekkan (Japanese) Tekpi (Malaysia) Tewhatewha (Māori) Tonfa (Okinawan) Waddy, Nulla Nulla (Australian) War hammer also a pickaxe weapon (European) Wooden war club, sharp headed version and curve headed version (American) Wrench (Improvised)
The shorthanded bills were used by the army of historic India as well, mainly by infantrymen of Bengal. An agricultural version, commonly known as either a brush-axe, bush-axe, or brush-hook, is readily available in rural hardware and farm-supply stores in the United States today, and is available in the United Kingdom as a "long bill".
Scythemen, also known as scythe-bearers [a] is the term for soldiers (often peasants and townspeople) armed with war scythes. [1] First appearing in the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794, scythemen quickly became one of the symbols of the struggle for Polish independence and for the emancipation of the serfs.
The scythed chariot was a modified war chariot. The blades extended horizontally for about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) to each side of the wheels. The Greek general Xenophon (430−354 BC), an eyewitness at the battle of Cunaxa, tells of them: "These had thin scythes extending at an angle from the axles and also under the driver's seat, turned toward the ground".