Snathe

//sneɪð// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of snath (“shaft of a scythe”). alt-of, alternative

    "Before the patent of Peirce, the nibs of scythes had been clumsily fastened to the snathe by means of an iron ring, tightened by wedges."

Verb
  1. 1
    To lop; to prune. UK, archaic
  2. 2
    To snatch.

    "Meleager's mother mad at his offence In that death by his hand had summon'd thence Her Brothers: snathes up the fatall brand which she , which did his life command, And on a flagrant altar it she layes, The which consuming her sons life betray's."

Synonyms

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Example

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"Meleager's mother mad at his offence In that death by his hand had summon'd thence Her Brothers: snathes up the fatall brand which she , which did his life command, And on a flagrant altar it she layes, The which consuming her sons life betray's."

Etymology

From Old English snǣdan (“to slice”), from Proto-Germanic *snaidijaną.

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