Definition of "scytheman"

Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

"Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of contract."

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page xviii. 219