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: [], volume 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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