Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shortened form of
snathe .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The handle of a scythe; a snead.
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- noun The
shaft of ascythe .
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Examples
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Cool plus : the thing that you swing around is called a snath.
Ms. Eythorsdottir made a "chandelier" of "beads of glucose that clung to twine and caught the natural light" designed to disintegrate in 5 months. Ann Althouse 2008
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Scythes are still sold worldwide in their classic 19th-century form, with a curved bentwood snath handle.
Humanity's Unseen Weapons Edward Tenner 2006
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We don't even know the lay-out of the place - it sounds like a classic snath and run.
What a humiliation for the Secret Service! Ann Althouse 2006
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He jumped when he saw me, making a great show of searching for the snath that had slipped from his hand when he'd dozed off.
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Inman went to slash at the shinbones of the smith, 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.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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He threw the snath off across the road into a patch of ragweed.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Inman went to slash at the shinbones of the smith, 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.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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He threw the snath off across the road into a patch of ragweed.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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The moment the shop-keeper said it I dropped the snath, raised my axe, and told him that if he came one step nearer to me I would make mincemeat of him.
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story L. A. Abbott
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Barney, fastening it to the snath, again set off up the lane.
The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies Ralph Connor 1898
super-kawy commented on the word snath
The handle of a scythe.
February 9, 2009
brtom commented on the word snath
"I could see that the snath had a delightful patina that came with age and good care." Brian Lowry
March 13, 2009
madmouth commented on the word snath
one wishes it had a silent 'e' to match scythe
April 14, 2009
yarb commented on the word snath
'The curve of the scythe, and its having no snath to it, made it look exactly like a sword.'
- Melville, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
April 3, 2010