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snǽd

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
snǽd, es; m. 'A piece of land within defined limits, but without enclosures, a limited circumscribed woodland or pasturage,' Leo, Anglo-Saxon Names of Places, pp. 68-9. Or (?)
Wright's OE grammar
§225; §562;
a clearing in a wood. Cf. snǽdan,
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  • Ic hire léte tó ðæt ceorla gráf tósundran . . . and se alhmunding snǽd hére intó preosda byrig,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 100, 16.
  • Be ðam gráue ðæt hit cymþ intó ðam snǽde; and of ðam snǽde, iii. 399, 34.
  • Ðet firhde bituihu longanleág and ðem suðtúne and ða snádas illuc pertinentia, i. 261, 10.
  • Tó Óswaldingtúne hiérþ holenhyrst . . . cyrþring-hyrst, triphyrst, and insnádis(-as?) intó Óswaldingtúne, ii. 228, 4. Also snǽðfeld occurs iii. 399, 20 :-- On ðone lytlan snǽðfeld;

    and

    snádhyrst, i.
      273, 6.
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