A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1513, 1584-1585, 1646-1684
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Snod, (ppl.) adj. Also: sned, snood. [17th c. north. Eng. dial. snoode (1641), snod (1691); Sned v. Also in the later dial.] a. Cut, trimmed. b. ? Chopped. c. Smooth. Also absol. smooth ground. d. Of grain: Having had the awns removed, smooth. —a. 1513 Doug. v xiii 24.
Hys awin hed warpit with a snod olyve [L. caput tonsae foliis evinctus olivae] —b. 1646 Edinburgh Testaments LXII 75b.
Ten pund wecht of snod ginger —c. 1513 Doug. xii Prol. 186 (Ruthv., 1553, Ruddim.) (see Snog(e adj.). a1585 Polwart Flyt. 582 (T).
For fundrit beistis … Hes not thair hairis so sned [H. snood] as totheris gude —absol. a1500 Henr. Fab. 2506.
He wald chase thame baith throw rouch and snod —d. 1673 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 25 Dec.
22 boalls of snod wittwall 1684 Symson Descr. Galloway 74.
Being barefoot, they go among it, rubbing it with their feet, … and by this meanes the long beards or awnds are separated from the corne, and the corne made, as they terme it, more snod and easie to pass through the mill
