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Snell

Snell \Snell\, a. [AS. snell; akin to D. snel, G. schnell, OHG. snel, Icel. snjallr valiant.] Active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp. [Archaic or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

That horny-handed, snell, peremptory little man.
--Dr. J. Brown.

Snell

Snell \Snell\, n. A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snell

Old English snel "quick, active," cognate with Old Saxon, Dutch, Old High German snel, German schnell "swift, quick," Old Danish snel "swift, fleet," Old Norse snjallr "eloquent, able, bold." It survived as a surname and in Scottish and northern English; used by Burns and Scott. Italian snello is from Germanic.

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snell

Etymology 1

  1. 1 active, brisk or nimble; lively. 2 quick, sudden; sharp. 3 quick-witted; witty. 4 harsh; severe. Etymology 2

    n. A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook or lure is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line. v

  2. To tie a hook to the end of a fishing line with a snell knot.

Wikipedia
Snell (VTA)

Snell is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). This station is served by VTA's Alum Rock–Santa Teresa line. It was part of the original Guadalupé Line, the first segment of light rail from Santa Teresa to Tasman.

Snell (company)

Snell Limited, branded as Snell Advanced Media or SAM, is a company that designs and develops solutions for the media production market including applications for central operations, live production, post production, playout and media management. They are headquartered in Newbury, UK.

SAM delivers agile technology across Live Production, Production, Editing & Finishing, Playout & Delivery, Infrastructure & Image Processing, all running under enterprise-wide Management & Workflow automation.

Snell, owned by bankers LDC, was created from the merger of Snell & Wilcox and Pro-Bel in 2009. In March 2014 Snell was acquired by another company owned by LDC Quantel Ltd. Following LDC's replacement of Snell CEO Simon Derry with Quantel CEO Ray Cross, the process of merging the companies began. LDC had previously in 2006 appointed Cross to replace Quantel CEO Richard Taylor. However within a year LDC then replaced Cross with new CEO Tim Thorsteinson. The company was rebranded as Snell Advanced Media in September 2015. Following the rebrand, SAM continues to carry the Quantel name on its Quantel Rio, formerly Pablo Rio, line of post-production solutions.

Snell

Snell or Snells may refer to:

Snell (surname)

Snell is an Anglo-Saxon nickname surname, for someone who is lively.

Usage examples of "snell".

Snell reports a case in which a piece of steel was imbedded and encapsulated in the ciliary process twenty-nine years without producing sympathetic irritation of its fellow, but causing such pain as to warrant enucleation of this eye.

Snell took the photograph of the dead boy, but his eyes were on Frost who had got up from the chair and was now mooching about the room, pulling open drawers, rummaging inside.

Rudy Snell, or if Stolle was making him up to take the blame off himself.

While Jack Stolle was short and slight, Rudy Snell was a huge man who weighed more than 250 pounds.

If Snell was remembering accurately, Stolle had been out of his sight from sometime Sunday morning until sometime Monday.

Snell by miners, who claimed that the jaw came from the gravels beneath the latite cap at Table Mountain in Tuolumne County.

Attorney Garcia and his cocounsel, Dietrich Snell, built a meticulous case that put Yousef inside PAL Flight 434 as he built the bomb, inside the Dona Josefa as he constructed the Casio timers, and inside Room 16 at the Su Casa as he stuffed nitrocellulose into toy cars in a desperate attempt to perfect the Bojinka plot and blow up U.

Rudy Snell acknowledged that he had once picked apples in the Wenatchee area.

She settled on a three-year-old Buick Skylark, two-tone blue with twenty-eight thousand miles on the odometer, and paid sixty-eight hundred bucks after haggling with the used car manager at Don Snell Buick for a couple of weeks.

THIS guy Snelling, Petey said, was a racing bloke see, a lad with right fancy clobber, a real bonzer.

Some time back, a party of Chippeways came down to a trader's house, about half a mile from Port Snelling.

Snell was bitter toward the government, Ellison claimed, because the IRS and FBI had seized his property.

While under arrest, Snell called himself a "prisoner of war," precisely what authorities claimed McVeigh said.

Wilfred Snell stood in a circle of his sycophants, towering above them much bigger than life size, almost like a badly executed monument to himself.

He walked into Sheriff Doyle's squad car, bounced back like a pool ball, and grinned in at the drunk driver dozing in the back, then he turned to Doyle, who had just finished with Sue Snell.