snathe

verb

1. (UK, archaic)To lop; to prune.
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.”

   “The fair dame was able to snathe the best candidates— She pathed good souls to the noble way and educates.”

noun

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

   “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.”

   “Mine is an old ridge-backed twenty-eight-inch blade that I inherited with the place and set on a new snathe.”

   “The resulting scythe is heavier and more difficult to use than a bent snathe.”