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▪ I. sned, n.
see snead.
▪ II. sned, v.
Forms: 1 snædan (pa. tense snædde, snedde), 6– sned, 7 snedde, snad, snead, 8 snade.
[OE. snǽdan, related to sníðan snithe v. For the shortening of the vowel cf. kep v.]
1. a. trans. To cut or lop off (a branch). Also in fig. context, and with off. In later use Sc. and north. dial.
a800Leiden Gloss. 249 in O.E. Texts 117 Putat, snædit. c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxiii. 222 Hit bið unnyt ðæt mon hwelces yfles boᵹas snæde [etc.]. c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 8 Sume þonne sneddun telgran of treowum & stræᵹdun on þæm weᵹe. 1513Douglas æneid xi. i. 14 Ane akin tre,..The branchis sned and kut abowt alquhair. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 192 Otheris sned the branches of the Papistrie, but he stryckis at the roote. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. ii. 26 Whereby they did in some sort snedde the reviving twigs of old superstition. 1645in Baillie's Lett. & Jrnls. (1775) II. 94 Which [writing], although it took not away the root, yet did it sned many of the branches of the evils complained of. 1735E. Erskine Serm. Wks. 1871 II. 337 The Lord of the Vineyard sneds the luxuriant branches. 1829in Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2). c1870W. Graham Lect. Ephes. 351 The branch sned off from the vine becomes a sport of the winds.
transf.1786Burns To a Haggis vii, He..legs, an' arms, an' heads will sned, Like taps o' thrissle. 1819Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 199 First his richt ear he clean aff⁓cleft, And then he sneddit aff his left.
b. To prune (a tree); to divest of branches.
1595Duncan App. Etym. (E.D.S.), Puto, autumno,..to sned trees. 1640Rutherford Lett. (1881) ii. xxxv. 438 He is only lopping and snedding a fruitful tree. 1689in 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. III. 116, I resolve rather to give it over and go home and snad trees at Polwart House. 1710Ruddiman Gloss. Douglas' æneis s.v. Sneith, To sned, i.e. to prune timber-trees. 1894Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. 664 After a tree is cut down it is snedded, or divested of all its branches. 1953H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. xiii. 205 As soon as the tree is down it should be lopped or snedded, by cutting the branches away from the trunk. 1971Timber Trades Jrnl. 3 Apr. 58/2 Although the chainsaw has long been used for limbing hardwoods the technique of snedding softwoods with a power saw is relatively new.
2. To cut; to form, or sever, by cutting. Sc. and north. dial.
In ME. this sense occurs in the comb. to-snēden.
1789Burns To Dr. Blacklock vi, But I'll sned besoms—thraw saugh woodies. 1888Yeats Folk Tales 268 He..pulled up the fir-tree,..and having snedded it into a walking-stick [etc]. 1889A. Munro Siren Casket 239 Heart I've not..To sned your thrad of life.
Hence ˈsnedded ppl. a.; ˈsnedder; ˈsnedding vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1584in Melvil's Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 177 The snedders and delvers of the wyneyeard. c1670J. Fraser Polichron. (S.H.S.) 269 The smith..finding the fresh sneaded branches, makes search under the tree. 1720T. Boston Fourf. State (1797) 279 He that would ingraft, must needs use the snedding-knife. 1725A. Jervise Epit., etc. (1879) II. 39/1 With spade and Raik,..The snading ax and pruning knife. 1735E. Erskine Serm. Wks. 1871 II. 337 The snedding of the tree contributes to the..growth of the branches. 1808Jamieson, Sneddins, the prunings, or twigs, lopped off from trees. 1825― Suppl., Snedder, a pruner, one who lops off branches. |