dial. Also 5 snythill. [prob. f. the stem of OE. sníðan to cut: see SNITHE v. WFris. has snyl (from *snidel) or snile in the same sense.] Coarse grass, rushes or sedge.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 4095. A dryi meere … full of gladen & of gale & of grete redis. Þan snyȝes þar, out of þat snyth hill [read snythill] … A burly best.
1794. T. Wedge, Agric. Chester, 56–7. Before the cheese is brought into the rooms, the floors are mostly well littered with what the farmers here call ‘sniddle.’
a. 1800. Pegge, Suppl. Grose, Sniddle, long grass; also stubble. Lanc.
1845. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VI. I. 119. The floor of the cheese-room is generally covered with … a coarse grass resembling rushes, called ‘sniddle.’
1886. Holland, Chesh. Gloss., Sniddle, any kind of sedge, Carex.
