[Anglo-Saxon, snod]. A short hair-line or wire to which hooks are fastened below the lead in angling. Or the link of hair uniting the hook and fishing-line.
·vt To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood. II. Snood ·noun A short line (often of horsehai...
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a fillet to tie up a woman's hair. Lane. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose