[f. prec.]
1. trans. To bind up, fasten back, or secure (the hair) with a snood.
1725. Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., I. i. Her cockernony snooded up fou sleek.
1793. Statist. Acc. Scotl., IX. 325. At home they went bareheaded, with their hair snooded back on the crown of their head, with a woollen string in the form of a garter.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xiv. Her hands trembled as she snooded her fair hair beneath the riband.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. VII. ii. Her sweeping tresses snooded by glittering antique fillet.
1890. Pall Mall Gaz., 29 Jan., 6/3. The new fashion of wearing the hair snooded low on the nape of the neck.
transf. 1856. S. Dobell, Eng. in Time of War, Home, Wounded, 27. Where The larch is snooding her flowery hair With wreaths of morning shadow.
2. Angling. To attach (a hook) to a snood.
1840. Marryat, Poor Jack, vi. He was snooding a hook.
