snath

See also: snáth

English

An example of a scythe:
1. toe
2. chine
3. beard
4. heel
5. tang
6. ring
7. snath or snathe
8. grip or nib

From a variant of snead, itself from Middle English snede, from Old English snǣd (“the shaft or handle of a scythe”), akin to Old English snīþan (“to cut”). More at snithe.

snath (plural snaths)

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.

shaft of a scythe

Bulgarian: дръжка (bg) (drǎžka)
Czech: kosiště (cs) n
Finnish: viikatteenvarsi (fi)
French: manche de faux (fr)
German: Sensenwurf (de), Sensenstiel (de) m, Sensenbaum (de) m
Icelandic: orf n
Ingrian: lysi
Japanese: 大鎌おおがまの柄え (ja) (おおがまのえ, ōgama no e) (literally "scythe shaft")
Polish: kosisko n, stylisko (pl) n
Portuguese: foice (pt)
Russian: рукоя́тка (ru) f (rukojátka) (косы́), черено́к (ru) m (čerenók) (косы́), косови́ще (ru) n (kosovíšče)
Slovak: kosisko n
Swedish: orv (sv)