单词 | sniddle |
释义 | sniddlen. dialect. Coarse grass, rushes, or sedge. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > bent grass, rush, or sedge sedgec1000 flaga1387 sniddlea1400 bentc1425 helm1640 marram1640 beach-grass1681 spreta1700 bent-grass1777 marsh grass1785 sea-grass1791 sedge-grass1847 sand grass1856 a1400–50 Alexander 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. 1794 T. Wedge Gen. View Agric. Chester 57 Before the cheese is brought into the rooms, the floors are mostly well littered with what the farmers here call ‘sniddle’. a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Sniddle, long grass; also stubble. Lanc. 1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 6 i. 119 The floor of the cheese-room is generally covered with..a coarse grass resembling rushes, called ‘sniddle’. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Sniddle, any kind of sedge, Carex. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1400 |
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