kill

On-Yomi: サツ、サイ、セツ — Kun-Yomi: ころ.す、-ごろ.し、そ.ぐ

Koohii stories:

1) [scottamus] 25-8-2006(164): Wolverine (sheaf, see reap (#1488 刈)) leaps over a tree and with one swipe of his claws kills a bad guy aiming a missle launcher.

2) [nest0r] 1-2-2008(111): I suppose when this kanji was made, it was most effective to kill your enemies with sheafs of wood used as missiles.

3) [mspertus] 9-5-2007(33): This is the Monty Python "How not to be seen" sketch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Not_To_Be_Seen) where they use heat seeking missiles to kill people first behind sheafs of hay and then behind trees.

4) [ovioprime] 18-10-2007(20): Sheaf, tree, missile Someone is trying to kill you. They've fired a heat seeking missile at you. You're confused with the stress and think it is a wheat seeking missile - you put a sheaf at the top of a tree to mislead it.

5) [Tornadic_Indignation] 7-7-2009(16): Wolverine, from atop a tree, blasts his semen into the below enemy's mouth, which kills him instantly.