Obs. Also 4 north. snade. [app. repr. OE. *snád, unrecorded variant of snǽd SNEDE, related to sníðan SNITHE v.] A piece or bit (of bread or other food); a morsel.

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  α.  c. 1150.  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 548. Offa, snode.

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c. 1275.  Passion our Lord, 108, in O. E. Misc. [Judas ate the bread] And þe veond him on bi-com myd þerylke snode.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter cxlvii. 17. He sendes als snodes [L. frusta panis, or buccellas] his cristal.

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1340.  Ayenb., 111. Þe lecherous … þet … uorzuelȝþ þane guode snode wyþ-oute chewynge. Ibid., 218. Hy … eteþ þe blodi snoden.

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  β.  13[?].  Cursor M., 15387 (Gött.). Þe morsel laght iudas, wid þat ilk snade … croupe in him sathanas.

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13[?].  Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.), in Herrig, Archiv, LVII. 313. Was neuere Beggere þat þer bade At his hous gete bite or snade.

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