different between snaste vs snasts

English

Alternative forms

• snast, snaist, snaast, sneeste, sneest, snace, snaice, sneeze, snaich

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snæst/, (dialectally also) /sne?st/

Noun

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

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

Anagrams

• antses, assent, sanest, stanes, steans

English

Noun

snasts

1. plural of snast