[f. prec.] trans. To make smooth, trim or neat; to tidy, put in order. Also with down, off, up.
1584. Hudson, Judith, IV. 269. On stake and ryce, hee knits the crooked vines, And snoddes their bowes.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Poems (1789), II. 7. Ye saw yoursel how weel his mailin’ thrave, Ay better faugh’d an’ snodit than the lave.
1791. J. Learmont, Poems, 85. The ploughman cultivates the field, The mower snods the common.
1819. Scott, Lett., in Lockhart (1837), IV. viii. 251. I have planted a number of shrubs,… and am snodding up the drive of the old farm house.
1865. G. Macdonald, A. Forbes, xxvi. 115. The … tallow candles … had … to be snodded laboriously.
