Examples
“Cool plus : the thing that you swing around is called a snath.”
“We don't even know the lay-out of the place - it sounds like a classic snath and run.”
“Scythes are still sold worldwide in their classic 19th-century form, with a curved bentwood snath handle.”
“He jumped when he saw me, making a great show of searching for the snath that had slipped from his hand when he'd dozed off.”
“Inman went to slash at the shinbones of the smith, 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.”
“He threw the snath off across the road into a patch of ragweed.”
“The moment the shop-keeper said it I dropped the snath, raised my axe, and told him that if he came one step nearer to me I would make mincemeat of him.”
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story
“Barney, fastening it to the snath, again set off up the lane.”
“She turned and entered the house without a word, while he took down the scythe from its peg, removed the blade from the snath and handed it to his father.”
“He came Sunday evening, and I did not suppose that he had come to work with us till the next morning, when, after prayers, he quietly fetched his scythe and snath down from the wagon-house chamber, and called on Halstead to turn the grindstone for him.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snath’.
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Words without the letter E
chord, slur, anabaptist, anabolic, diabolic, turbid, torpid, somniloquist, trump, bipolar, dioxin, hydrocarbon and 107 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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real ones i never knew until now
... what i've learned from wordie
brummagem, lede, gynotikolobomasso..., battology, cete, tigon, liger, beteem, albedo, zugunruhe, borborygmi, borborygmic and 6 more...
Tweets
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yarb 'The curve of the scythe, and its having no snath to it, made it look exactly like a sword.'
- Melville, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids Apr 3, 2010
madmouth one wishes it had a silent 'e' to match scythe Apr 14, 2009
brtom "I could see that the snath had a delightful patina that came with age and good care." Brian Lowry Mar 13, 2009
super-kawy The handle of a scythe. Feb 9, 2009