▪ I. snithe, a. north. dial.
Also 9 snyde.
[Related to next.]
= snithing ppl. a.
| 1671 Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl., A Snithe-wind, vox elegantissima agro Linc. usitatissima. Significat autem Ventum valde Frigidum & Penetrabilem,..ut nos dicimus, a Cutting wind. [Hence in Ray.] 1683 Yorkshire Dialogue 39 It is varra Snithe, And Ise flaid, Wife, it will be Frost Belive. 1828– in north. dial. use (Eng. Dial. Dict.). 1884 G. S. Streatfeild Linc. & Danes 265 At the fore-end of the year the winds are often hask and snyde. |
▪ II. snithe, v. Obs. exc. dial.
[Common Teutonic: OE. sn{iacu}ðan, = OFris. snîtha (snida, snia, WFris. snije), MDu. snīden (Du. snijden), OS. snîđan (LG. snīden), OHG. snîdan (MHG. snîden, G. schneiden), ON. sn{iacu}ða (Norw. and Sw. snida), Goth. sneiþan. The mod. dial. use may be from ON.]
trans. To cut; † to kill by cutting.
| c 725 Corpus Gl. (Hessels) D 342 Dolatum, ᵹesniden. c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. 377 Ᵹif hwelc god læce bið, ðe wel cann wunda sniðan. c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 40 God..het niman anes ᵹeares lamb æt ælcum hiwisce, and sniðan on Easter-tide. c 1200 Ormin 1338 Þe preost..toc & snaþ þatt oþerr bucc. Ibid. 14666 Tacc Ysaac þin wennchell, & sniþ itt, alls itt wære an shep. 1888 Addy Sheffield Gloss. 226 Snithe a piece off with thy knife. |
▪ III. snithe
dial. var. snath, scythe-pole; obs. f. sny v. to swarm.