snathe

English

Etymology

Compare Icelandic sneiða (“to cut into slices”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪð

Verb

snathe (third-person singular simple present snathes, present participle snathing, simple past and past participle snathed)

1. (UK, dialect) To lop; to prune.

Noun

snathe (plural snathes)

1. Alternative form of snath (“shaft of a scythe”)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “snathe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Athens, hasten, sneath, thanes