Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A cut, a cutting; a slash, a slight wound; a lopping or pruning. · snathe (scythe part)
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo lop; lop or chop off.
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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