We have often little snatches of sunshine.
Spectator.
Leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer.
Shak.
Snatch block (Naut.), a kind of block with an opening in one side to
receive the bight of a rope.
Snatch"er (?), n. One who snatches, or takes abruptly.
Snatch"ing*ly, adv. By snatching; abruptly.
Snath (snth), n. [Cf. AS. snðan to cut, to mow, snd a bite, bit, snip.]
The handle of a scythe; a snead. [Variously written in England snead,
sneed, sneath, sneeth, snathe, etc.; in Scotland written sned.]
Snathe (sn), v. t. [Cf. Icel. sneiða to cut into alices, snða to cut;
akin to AS. besndan, snðan, G. schneiden, OHG. sndan, Goth. sneiþan to
cut, to reap, and E. snath, snithe.] To lop; to prune. [Prov. Eng.]
Snat"tock (snt"tk), n. [See Snathe.] A chip; a slice. [Prov. Eng.]
Gayton.
Snaw (sn), n. Snow. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns.
Snead (snd), n. [See Snath.] 1. A snath.