snoodn.
/snuːd/, U.S. /snud/ 1. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 377 Ȝone ma nocht saif thair bodie with ane snude.1643 Orkney 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.1677 Nicholson in Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. (1870) 9 319 Snude, a fillet, or hair lace.1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. iv The rashes green..Of which..For thee I plet the flow'ry belt and snood.1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. (1794) 213 The single women wear only a ribband round their head, which they call a snood.1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 103 No hunter's hand her snood untied, Yet ne'er again to braid her hair The virgin snood did Alice wear.1842 R. H. Barham Bloudie Jacke in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 170 While her tresses are bound with a snood.1889 R. Buchanan Heir of Linne vii Her hair was bound up in a simple snood.1938 Sun (Baltimore) 22 Oct. 5/6 (caption) New hats in vivid colors... Shakos, pill boxes, turbans, brims, pie plates and snoods.1939 in C. W. Cunnington English Women's Clothing (1952) vii. 262 A spate of hoods and snoods.1944 M. 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.1947 E. Jenkins Young Enthusiasts 47 They..wore ribbon snoods secured under their buns.1968 J. 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. Obsolete. rare.
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, usually worn at the back of the head.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head- or hair-band
snoodc725
norseleOE
hair-lacea1300
filleta1327
tressurea1350
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headbanda1522
forehead-cloth1561
fascia1587
filleting1648
forehead-band1809
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hair-net > types of
snood1938
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 137 Cappa, snod.
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 204 Cinthium, mitra, snod.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 28 Þa lærde hi sum iudeisc man, þæt heo name ænne wernægel..and becnytte to anum hringe mid hire snode.
c1150 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 540 Uitta, snod.
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1425 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1695) Gloss. at 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.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > length attaching hook in angling > in sea-fishing
snoodc1682
snooding1815
ganging1845
ganging line1875
c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 112 To each of these are fastned 20 Snoods, alias Nossels, which are small Lines, with Hooks and Baits at them.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 193 The hooks are fastened to the lines upon sneads of twisted horse hair, 27 inches in length.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 204 The quantity of line..contains..720 hooks,..one yard distant from each other, on snoods of horse hair.
1848 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) I. 699 These are long lines, with hooks fastened at regular distances..by shorter and smaller cords called snoods.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries 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.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > length attaching hook in angling
snooding1815
snood1823
snell1846
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 375 Snood, that part of an angler's line to which the hook is affixed.
1832 W. H. Maxwell Wild Sports of West I. 263 I..lost time, hooks, and snouds.
1873 W. Graham in Harp of Perthshire (1893) 149 My licht thrown snood scarce touched the flood When doun it flew like lichtnin'.
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snoodv.
/snuːd/, U.S. /snud/ 1. transitive. To bind up, fasten back, or secure (the hair) with a snood.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > bind
fillet1604
snood1725
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i Her cockernony snooded up fou sleek.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. 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.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 48 Her hands trembled as she snooded her fair hair beneath the riband.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. ii. 406 Her sweeping tresses snooded by glittering antique fillet.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Jan. 6/3 The new fashion of wearing the hair snooded low on the nape of the neck.
2. Angling. To attach (a hook) to a snood.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > attach hook to a line [verb (transitive)]
snood1840
snell1891
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack vi. 32 He was snooding a hook.
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