snaste

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See also: snäste

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Perhaps related to snite (verb), or perhaps related to gnast.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

snaste (plural snastes)

  1. (obsolete, dialectal) The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle; the snuff.
    • 1626, Francis Bacon, Natural History, page 127:
      Till some part of the candle was consumed, and the dust gathered about the snaste; but then it made the snaste big, and long, and to burn duskishly.
    • 1865, Edward FitzGerald, Works, page 426:
      A coming letter is foretold by a projecting spark on the snaste.
    • 1899, Fison, Merry Suf., page 62:
      As that snaste of that candle, goos out.

Verb[edit]

snaste (third-person singular simple present snastes, present participle snasting, simple past and past participle snasted)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, dialectal) To snuff a candle.

References[edit]

  1. ^ “snast”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  2. ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SNASTE”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.

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