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▪ I. snithe, a. north. dial.
Also 9 snyde.
[Related to next.]
= snithing ppl. a.
1671Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl., A Snithe-wind, vox elegantissima agro Linc. usitatissima. Significat autem Ventum valde Frigidum & Penetrabilem,..ut nos dicimus, a Cutting wind. [Hence in Ray.] 1683Yorkshire Dialogue 39 It is varra Snithe, And Ise flaid, Wife, it will be Frost Belive. 1828–in north. dial. use (Eng. Dial. Dict.). 1884G. S. Streatfeild Linc. & Danes 265 At the fore-end of the year the winds are often hask and snyde.
▪ II. snithe, v. Obs. exc. dial.
[Common Teutonic: OE. sníðan, = OFris. snîtha (snida, snia, WFris. snije), MDu. snīden (Du. snijden), OS. snîđan (LG. snīden), OHG. snîdan (MHG. snîden, G. schneiden), ON. sníða (Norw. and Sw. snida), Goth. sneiþan. The mod. dial. use may be from ON.]
trans. To cut; † to kill by cutting.
c725Corpus Gl. (Hessels) D 342 Dolatum, ᵹesniden. c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. 377 Ᵹif hwelc god læce bið, ðe wel cann wunda sniðan. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 40 God..het niman anes ᵹeares lamb æt ælcum hiwisce, and sniðan on Easter-tide. c1200Ormin 1338 Þe preost..toc & snaþ þatt oþerr bucc. Ibid. 14666 Tacc Ysaac þin wennchell, & sniþ itt, alls itt wære an shep. 1888Addy Sheffield Gloss. 226 Snithe a piece off with thy knife.
▪ III. snithe
dial. var. snath, scythe-pole; obs. f. sny v. to swarm. |