snathing

Verb

snathe (third-person singular simple present snathes, present participle snathing, simple past and past participle snathed)

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.1924, John Milton, Some Newly Discovered Stanzas, page 149