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Word Meanings - SNAP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

snaben, Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel beak, bill. Cf. Neb, Snaffle, 1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle. Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. Prior. 2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound. 3. To

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snaben, Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel beak, bill. Cf. Neb, Snaffle, 1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle. Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. Prior. 2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound. 3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth. He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last. South. 4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up. Granville. 5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip. MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. Sir W. Scott. 6. To project with a snap. To snap back , to roll the ball back with the foot; -- done only by the center rush, who thus delivers the ball to the quarter back on his own side when both sides are ranged in line. -- To snap off. To break suddenly. To bite off suddenly.

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