Meaning of snaste | Babel Free

Definitions

The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle; the snuff.

dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“A coming letter is foretold by a projecting spark on the snaste.”

“As that snaste of that candle, goos out.”

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