snood

noun

A bag typically made of net fabric that is worn at the back of the head to keep a woman’s hair in place.

noun

A headband or fillet.

noun

A fleshy wrinkled fold of skin that hangs down over a turkey’s beak.

transitive verb

To hold (the hair) in place with a snood.

noun

A fillet formerly worn by young women in Scotland to confine the hair. It was held to be emblematic of maidenhood or virginity.

noun

In angling, a hair-line, gut, or silk cord by which a fish-hook is fastened to the line; a snell; a leader or trace Also sneed.

noun

One of the short lines of a bultow to which the hooks are attached: also called by fishermen ganging. The snoods are 6 feet long, and placed at intervals of 12 feet.

To bind up with a snood, as a maiden’s hair.

To tie, fasten, or affix, as an anglers’ hook when the end of the line or gut-loop is seized on to the shank of the hook.

transitive verb

To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood.