Noun: snath
| Singular | snath |
| Plural | snaths |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 3, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 71:]
Nouns inflected like snath
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
snede'.
Verbs referencing "snath"
English Nouns
snet.