nathe Obs. exc. dial.
(neɪð)
Also 6–7, 9 nath (næθ).
[var. of nave (and naff): cf. the similar variation between rathe n.2 and rave n.2]
The nave of a wheel.
| 1382 Wyclif Ecclus. xxxiii. 5 The entrailes of a fool as the whel of a carre, and as a turnende ful axtre [MS. C nathe] the thenkingus of hym. c 1449 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 222 The Carte nathe is spokeles, For the counseille that he gaffe. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §5 The wheles..be made of nathes, spokes, fellyes, and dowles. 1649 W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1652) 167 Nathes or Hubs. Ibid. 200 Six spokes..fastned into a little short Hub or Nath. 1655 Phillis of Scyros (N.), The restlesse spokes, and whirling nathes, Of my eternal chariot. 1778 Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Field, There were 80 pair of nathes for wheels cut out of it first. 1796 W. Marshall Midl. Counties Gloss. 1880– in dial. glossaries (Northumb., Lanc., Sheffield, Staff., etc.). |