snood /snuːd/noun 5verb 1forms 3 noun5 •A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.“Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.” — 1895 •A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid. — 1810 •A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer. •The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.A fingerlike projection called a snood hangs over the front of the beak. When the tom is alert, the snood constricts and projects vertically as a fleshy bump at the top rear of the beak. — 2000 •A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.The baits are [...] dropped on the snood, as I have seen done by many unthinking persons who have only been accustomed to chopstick lines, a foul is the natural result. — 1875 verb1 •To keep the hair in place with a snood.Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair — 1792 formssnooded · snooding · snoods
