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snǽdan

  • verb [ weak ]
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snǽdan, p. de.
to slice, cut into slices
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  • On hunig gesnǽd,

      Lchdm. ii. 294, 9.
II. to snathe [given by Halliwell as a northern word =to prune trees, and occurs in Ray's collection,
    E. D. S. Pub. Gloss. B. 15.
Jamieson gives sned to prune, lop off, sned a branch pruned off.]
to lop, prune, cut branches off trees
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  • Snédit

    putat,

      Txts. 117, 249.

  • Sume snéddun telgran of treówum

    alii caedebant ramos de arboribus,

      Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 21, 8.

  • Hit biþ unnyt ðæt mon hwelces yfles bógas snǽde búton mon wille ða wyrtruman forceorfan ðæs staðoles

    incassum foras nequitia ex ramis inciditur, si surrectura multiplicius intus in radice servatur,

      Past. 33, 5; Swt. 222, 15.
to hew or trim stones. [In this sense Jamieson gives sned as a word of northern Scotland.]
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  • Ðara werhtena ðe ðanæ stán sneóddon and fégdon, Anglia xi. 5, 7.
Etymology
[Þe moder mid sexe hine tosnæde & al todælde, Laym. 4015. Þa quene ich al tosnaðde mid mine sweorede, 28050. O. H. Ger. gi-sneitón putare: Icel. sneiða to cut into slices.]
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v. be-snǽdan; sníðan.
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v.  snǽding tó-snǽdan ge-snǽdan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “snǽdan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/28202.

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