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語源

From a variant of snead, itself from 中期英語 snede, from 古期英語 snǣd (“the shaft or handle of a scythe”), akin to 古期英語 snīþan (“to cut”). More at snithe.

発音

• IPA: /snæθ/
• 韻: -æθ

名詞

snath (plural snaths)

1. The shaft of a scythe.
   • 1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 3, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 71:

     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.

参考

• haft, the handle of any of various tools
• helve, the handle of any of various tools

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “snath”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• Hants, NHTSA, Thans, ha'nts, hants, hasn't, sha'n't, shan't, shant