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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Snud(e, n. Also: snwid, snood, sned. [ME snod (c1150), 17th c. Eng. snood (c1682), OE snód.] A ribbon, lace or decorative band of some sort. b. specif. A fillet or hair-band, as worn by unmarried girls. c. ‘The part of a sea-fishing-line … to which the hook is attached' (SND, s.v. Snuid n. 2). 1535 Stewart 11815.
Tak na terrour … Of glitterand gold … that … thai [sc. the Romans] weir. Ȝone ma nocht saif thair bodie with ane snude [: blude] 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 16.
4 or 5 rocks of tow, some tied with red snoods, some with blewb. a1568 Blyth in Bann. MS 113b/38.
Not wirth ane hude or ane auld snvd 1616 Thanes of Cawdor 240.
Blew ribbands to be her snwid 1643 Orkney Witch Trial in Misc. Abbotsf. C. I 177.
That ȝe haid Vrsulla Alexanderis snood, quhilk ȝe haid keipit 1645 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXX 149.
8 elne of camill hair to be Jeane and the woman tuo snoodisc. 1565 Inverness Rec. I 126.
To … delywer to Manis Brebnar vij stringis of lynes, thre hundreth huikis, tuay hundreth sneddis, the best nett of thre hering nettis [etc.] 1611 Edinb. Test. XLVI 334.
Tua gros of snudis at xxx s. the gros
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