† snuten.
Obsolete.
(See quots. 16511, 16512.)
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snute1649
1649 in J. R. Boyle & F. W. Dendy Extracts Rec. Merchant Adventurers Newcastle (1895) I. 157 A little hempe, snute and sope.
1651 in J. R. Boyle & F. W. Dendy Extracts Rec. Merchant Adventurers Newcastle (1895) I. 174 Snutte, a comodity made out of flax.
1651 in J. R. Boyle & F. W. Dendy Extracts Rec. Merchant Adventurers Newcastle (1895) I. 174 In which manufacture there are these 3 partes, that is, the flax.., the snewtte which is the combeings of the tow which was heckled of the flax.
1663 in J. R. Boyle & F. W. Dendy Extracts Rec. Merchant Adventurers Newcastle (1895) I. 59 Tow or snute the c weight, iij d.
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