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”).
sned (plural sneds)
sned (third-person singular simple present sneds, present participle snedding, simple past and past participle snedded)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sned”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
From Old Swedish snedher. Related to snedd (“obliqueness, inclination”).
sned (comparative snedare, superlative snedast)
Inflection of sned | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | sned | snedare | snedast |
Neuter singular | snett | snedare | snedast |
Plural | sneda | snedare | snedast |
Masculine plural3 | snede | snedare | snedast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | snede | snedare | snedaste |
All | sneda | snedare | snedaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
From Middle English snede, from Old English snǣd.
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