sned

• snid, sneed, snade, snedd (Scotland)

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)

1. (Scotland) A cut, a cutting; a slash, a slight wound; a lopping or pruning.
2. snathe (scythe part)

sned (third-person singular simple present sneds, present participle snedding, simple past and past participle snedded)

1. (archaic, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To lop; lop or chop off.

   Synonyms: snathe, snead

• “sned”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• dens, send, Send, ends, ENDS, Neds, neds, Ends, NDEs, SEND

• sne (colloquial)

From Old Swedish snedher. Related to snedd (“obliqueness, inclination”).

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• Rhymes: -eː

sned (comparative snedare, superlative snedast)

1. at an angle (especially if neither horizontal nor vertical), oblique, askew, crooked

   Tavlan är sned

   The painting is crooked

   Lägga huvudet på sned

   Tilt one's head

2. (figuratively) skewed (uneven)

   sned resursfördelning

   skewed distribution of resources

3. (colloquial) angry (with), sour; in a very bad mood

   Jag blir sned på honom när han uppför sig så där

   I get angry with him when he behaves like that

   Varför är du sned?

   Why are you angry?

• snedda (“move diagonally”)
• snedknullad
• snett (“obliquely, awry”) (adverb)

• sned in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• neds.

From Middle English snede, from Old English snǣd.

• IPA^(key): /snɛd/

sned

1. The handle of the scythe.

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[1], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 134