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snath

noun
/snæθ/

Etymology

From a variant of snead, itself from Middle English snede, from Old English snǣd (“the shaft or handle of a scythe”), akin to Old English snīþan (“to cut”). More at snithe.

  1. inherited from snǣd
  2. inherited from snede

Definitions

  1. The shaft of a scythe.

    • It felt natural to him, holding a scythe in his hands and working with it again […] but the blade clashed on the stone of the foundation and threw a spray of white sparks and broke off close so that he was left holding but the snath.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for snath. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA