| 释义 |
ˈsniddle dial.
Also 5 snythill.
[prob. f. the stem of OE. sníðan to cut: see snithe v. WFris. has snyl (from *snidel) or snile in the same sense.]
Coarse grass, rushes, or sedge.
a1400–50Alexander 4095 A dryi meere..full of gladen & of gale & of grete redis. Þan snyȝes þar, out of þat snyth hill [read snythill]..A burly best. 1794Wedge Agric. Chester 57 Before the cheese is brought into the rooms, the floors are mostly well littered with what the farmers here call ‘sniddle’. a1800Pegge Suppl. Grose, Sniddle, long grass; also stubble. Lanc. 1845Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VI. i. 119 The floor of the cheese-room is generally covered with..a coarse grass resembling rushes, called ‘sniddle’. 1886Holland Chesh. Gloss., Sniddle, any kind of sedge, Carex. |