snaste
See also: snäste
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps related to snite (verb), or perhaps related to gnast.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
snaste (plural snastes)
- (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)
- (transitive, obsolete, dialectal) To snuff a candle.
References edit
- ^ “snast”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SNASTE”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.