Sned

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cut, a cutting; a slash, a slight wound; a lopping or pruning. Scotland
  2. 2
    snathe (scythe part)
Verb
  1. 1
    To lop; lop or chop off. Northern-England, Scotland, archaic, transitive

Synonyms

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snathesnead

Etymology

From Middle English snid (attested only in the sense of saw and slaughter), from Old English snid, snide (“a cut, incision; cutting implement, saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *snidi; merging with Middle English snede (“a morsel, bite; scythe”), from Old English snǣd (“something cut off, morsel, bit; scythe handle”).

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