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- verb intransitive, obsolete to
cut orthrust while fighting with aknife ; to use a knife as aweapon
Etymologies
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From Dutch steken ‘thrust, stick’ + snee, a dialectal variant of snijden ‘cut’. The st- of stick later assimilated to the sn- of snick.
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