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单词 sniddle
释义

sniddlen.

Forms: Also Middle English snythill.
Etymology: probably < the stem of Old English sníðan to cut: see snithe v. West Frisian has snyl ( < *snidel) or snile in the same sense.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsniddle.
dialect.
Coarse grass, rushes, or sedge.
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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).
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