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单词 snood
释义 I. snood, n.|snuːd|
Forms: 1 snod, 6– (Sc. and north.) snude (9 sneud), 7– snood (9 snoud); north. 8 snead, 9 sneiad; Sc. 9 snid, sneed, etc.
[OE. snód, of obscure origin.]
1. a. A fillet, band, or ribbon, for confining the hair; latterly, in Scotland (and the north of England), the distinctive hair-band worn by young unmarried women. More recently, a fashionable bag-like or closed woman's hairnet, usu. worn at the back of the head.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 137 Cappa, snod.a1000in Wr.-Wülcker 204 Cinthium, mitra, snod.c1000ælfric Hom. II. 28 Þa lærde hi sum iudeisc man, þæt heo name ænne wernæᵹel..and becnytte to anum hringe mid hire snode.c1150in Wr.-Wülcker 540 Uitta, snod.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 377 Ȝone ma nocht saif thair bodie with ane snude.1643Orkney Witch Trial in Abbotsford Club Misc. I. 177 Ȝe said vnto hir that ȝe haid Vrsulla Alexanderis snood, quhilk ȝe haid keipit since ȝe put hir in hir winding sheit.1677Nicholson in Trans. R. Soc. Lit. (1870) IX. 319 Snude, a fillet, or hair lace.1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. iv, The rashes green..Of which..For thee I plet the flow'ry belt and snood.1771Pennant Tour in Scotl. (1794) 213 The single women wear only a ribband round their head, which they call a snood.1810Scott Lady of L. iii. v, No hunter's hand her snood untied, Yet ne'er again to braid her hair The virgin snood did Alice wear.1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Bloudie Jacke of Shrewsberie (1905) 322 While her tresses are bound with a snood.1889R. Buchanan Heir of Linne vii, Her hair was bound up in a simple snood.1938Sun (Baltimore) 22 Oct. 5/6 (caption) New hats in vivid colors... Shakos, pill boxes, turbans, brims, pie plates and snoods.1939in C. W. Cunnington English Women's Clothing (1952) vii. 262 A spate of hoods and snoods.1944M. Laski Love on Supertax x. 92 She carefully placed on the top of her head a little forward-tilting black hat whose draped jersey snood just failed to conceal the mass of yellow wrinkles.1947E. Jenkins Young Enthusiasts 47 They..wore ribbon snoods secured under their buns.1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 148 A knitted or open-work ‘bag’ over the back of the hair. Sometimes a snood is attached to a hat.
b. ? A skein. Obs.—1
1425in Kennett Par. Antiq. (1695) Gloss. s.v. Snodde, In viii snoden de Pakthred.
2. a. In sea-fishing: One of a number of short lines, each carrying a baited hook, attached at regular distances along the main line.
c1682J. Collins Salt & Fishery 112 To each of these are fastned 20 Snoods, alias Nossels, which are small Lines, with Hooks and Baits at them.1769Pennant Brit. Zool. (1776) III. 205 The hooks are fastened to the lines upon sneads of twisted horse hair 27 inches in length.1793Statist. Acc. Scotl. VII. 204 The quantity of line..contains..720 hooks,..one yard distant from each other, on snoods of horse hair.1848Chambers's Information for People I. 699 These are long lines, with hooks fastened at regular distances..by shorter and smaller cords called snoods.1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 7 Simple Machine, for making Norsels or Snoods of any length.
b. Angling. A hair or catgut line attaching the hook to the rod line.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Snood, that part of an angler's line to which the hook is affixed.1832W. H. Maxwell Wild Sp. West I. 263, I..lost time, hooks, and snouds.1873W. Graham in Harp of Perthshire (1893) 149 My licht thrown snood scarce touched the flood When doun it flew like lichtnin'.
II. snood, v.|snuːd|
[f. prec.]
1. trans. To bind up, fasten back, or secure (the hair) with a snood.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. i, Her cockernony snooded up fou sleek.1793Statist. Acc. Scotl. IX. 325 At home they went bareheaded, with their hair snooded back on the crown of their head, with a woollen string in the form of a garter.1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xiv, Her hands trembled as she snooded her fair hair beneath the riband.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. vii. ii, Her sweeping tresses snooded by glittering antique fillet.1890Pall Mall G. 29 Jan. 6/3 The new fashion of wearing the hair snooded low on the nape of the neck.
transf.1856S. Dobell Eng. in Time of War, Home, Wounded 27 Where The larch is snooding her flowery hair With wreaths of morning shadow.
2. Angling. To attach (a hook) to a snood.
1840Marryat Poor Jack vi, He was snooding a hook.
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