Snath

Cool plus : the thing that you swing around is called a snath. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

We don't even know the lay-out of the place - it sounds like a classic snath and run. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

Scythes are still sold worldwide in their classic 19th-century form, with a curved bentwood snath handle. ❋ Edward Tenner (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2001)

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. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

He threw the snath off across the road into a patch of ragweed. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

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. ❋ L. A. Abbott (N/A)

Barney, fastening it to the snath, again set off up the lane. ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)

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. ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)

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. ❋ Unknown (1887)

It hangs on a leafless mossy oak snag showing the effect of time, and on the snath is written, "All flesh is grass." ❋ John Muir (1876)

Still, there is something about the sinuous curve of an American snath that makes it unlike any other common tool. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A European snath will often be straighter, or completely straight, without the sweeping curves or the thick base. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The snath is full of notches -- probably the owner's record of work done and of his share in the harvest. " ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)