ˈsniddle dial.
Also 5 snythill.
[prob. f. the stem of OE. sn{iacu}ðan to cut: see snithe v. WFris. has snyl (from *snidel) or snile in the same sense.]
Coarse grass, rushes, or sedge.
| a 1400–50 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 Wedge Agric. Chester 57 Before the cheese is brought into the rooms, the floors are mostly well littered with what the farmers here call ‘sniddle’. a 1800 Pegge Suppl. Grose, Sniddle, long grass; also stubble. Lanc. 1845 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VI. i. 119 The floor of the cheese-room is generally covered with..a coarse grass resembling rushes, called ‘sniddle’. 1886 Holland Chesh. Gloss., Sniddle, any kind of sedge, Carex. |