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sneath

sneath is the alternative spelling of snath.

Meaning of snath

Noun

snath (plural snaths)

  1. The shaft of a scythe.
    • 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.1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 3, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 71

Proper noun capitalized: Sneath

Sneath (plural Sneaths)

  1. A surname from Old Norse.

Forms of sneath

Noun
pluralsneaths
Proper noun
pluralSneaths

Origin of sneath

Habitational surname from Snaith in East Yorkshire, so called from Old Norse sneið (“cut off piece of land”).

Questions about sneath

What does sneath mean?
Sneath means a surname from Old Norse.
What is sneath the alternative spelling of?
Sneath is the alternative spelling of snath.
What part of speech is sneath?
Sneath is a proper noun.

Words near sneath in the dictionary

  1. sneaky-deaky
  2. sneap
  3. sneaped
  4. sneaping
  5. sneaps
  6. sneath
  7. sneaths
  8. sneaux
  9. sneb
  10. snebbed
  11. snebbing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sneath (page history and authors); Sneath (page history and authors); snath (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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