Definition of "snathe" []

• To lop; to prune. (verb)

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• "When the mower wanted a new snathe or snead, as he called it, for his scythe, he found in the woods a deformed sapling that had grown under a log or twisted around a rock in a double bend, which made it the exact shape desired."
• "The handleless scythe-snathe is said to have come over on the _Mayflower_."
• "I was also able to find three hexagrams, the second of which is an extension of one of the quinquagrams: aehnst: thanes, snathe, nathes, hasten, enhats,"