a. dial. [ad. ON. snǽfr (stem snǽfr-, MSw. snäfr-, Da. snæver; also MSw. snäfw-, Sw. snäf, Norw. snæv, snøv) narrow, tight.] Narrow; slender, slight; neat.
1640. Brathwait, Lanc. Lovers, iv. 18. We han store of goodly Cattell;… peepe here and peepe there, aw the wide dale is but snever to them.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, 43. A Snever-spawt: a slender stripling. Ibid. (1691), (ed. 2), 66. Snever; slender: an usual word.
1788. W. H. Marshall, Yorksh., II. 354. Snevver; slender and neat.
1855. [Robinson], Whitby Gloss., s.v., Snever, Sneever.
