snathe
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
动词 v.
- To lop; to prune.
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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.
词源
词源 1
From Old English snǣdan (“to slice”), from Proto-Germanic *snaidijaną.
词源 2
From Old English snǣdan (“to slice”), from Proto-Germanic *snaidijaną.
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