v. Sc. Obs.1 [app. repr. OE. snyrian, snyrʓan to hasten, if not an error for steir.] intr. To sail.
a. 1568. A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.), i. 190. This ȝeir bayth blythnes and abundance bringis, Naveis of schippis outt[h]roch þe sea to sneir.