snathe

The crooked handle of a mowing scythe. An agricultural term common with the farmers both of England and of this country.

This is fixed on a long sneed, or strait handle.--Evelyn, B. II. ch. 6.

When stormy days constrain to quit the field,

The house or barn may useful business yield;

There crooked snathe of flexile sallow make,

Or of tough ash, the fork-stall and the rake.--Scott, Amæbæan Ecl.