Scythe
A long-handled curved blade for cutting grass and grain — the tool of harvest that takes the standing crop down in one sweep.
A scythe in a dream is the dream's image of the tool of harvest, the long curved blade that takes a standing crop down in one sweep. The scythe is patient work, but the cut itself is final. The dream brings the scythe when something in your life — a season of work, a stand of long-grown projects, a generation of relationships — has ripened to the stage where what is standing is ready to be brought down for use. A scythe swung rhythmically through a field ready for the cut is the dream affirming the harvest. A scythe taken into a crop that has not yet ripened, with the grain falling green, is the dream noting that the cut was made too early, and the value the standing crop would have grown into has been forfeited.