v. dial. Also 7 sneath, 7, 9 snare, 8 snaze (?). [app. ad. ON. sneiða (Norw. sneida; MSw. snetha) to cut, slice; but the sense is more precisely that of OE. snǽdan SNED v.] trans. To prune or lop (trees, etc.); to remove by lopping. Hence Snathing vbl. sb.; also attrib.
1485. Nottingham Rec., III. 230. For snathing of treez. Ibid. For makyng of a mlcccc. xl. kyddez of oke of þe seid snathinges.
1609. Burgery of Sheffield, 312. A payne laid that every person do snath and brush ther hedges.
1641. H. Best, Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 121. Yow are to snath off all the small twigges and boughes. Ibid. Hee hayth for this purpose a little broad snathinge axe.
1691. Ray, N. C. Words, 65. To Snathe or snare; to prune Trees: to cut off the Boughs of Ash or other Timber trees.
1781. J. Hutton, Tour to Caves (ed. 2), Gloss. 96. Snaze, clip an hedge.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Gloss., Snathe, to prune, to lop.
1866. Brogden, Prov. Lincs., Snare, to cut large boughs off a tree.
