snet

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnɛt/

From Old English snȳtan, from Proto-Germanic *snūtijaną. Compare snot.

snet (third-person singular simple present snets, present participle snetting, simple past and past participle snetted)

1. (obsolete) To clear of mucus; to blow (one's nose).
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     snetting his nose

Compare German Schnitt (“that which is cut”), from schneiden (“to cut”). Compare English snath.

snet (uncountable)

1. (UK, obsolete, dialect) The fat of a deer.
   • 1825, Samuel Adams and Sarah Adams, The Complete Servant:

     deer's, goat's, or lamb's snet

• “snet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• NETs, Sten, tens, TENS, NEST, nets, sent., ENTs, Ents, Nest, ents, nest, sent

snẹ̑t

1. past passive participle of snẹ́ti