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.