Lexicographical Neighbors of Snabbling
Literary usage of Snabbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1901)
"We shall all be grabbed, don't you see the dog Strap—the very cull who hath a
warrant against me for snabbling his peeter 1 and queer Joseph— 'tis time to ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"1752. SMOLLETT, Faithful Narrative [HENLEY, Works (1901), xii. 184]. For snabbling
his PETER and queer Joseph. ..."
3. The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia by John Keast Lord (1866)
"... as I was a-cruising down these flats about sun'up, the tide jist at the nip,
as it is now, I see a whole pile of shoveller ducks snabbling in the mud, ..."
4. The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia by John Keast Lord (1866)
"... as I was a-cruising down these flats about sun-up, the tide jist at the nip,
as it is now, I see a whole pile of shoveller ducks snabbling in the mud, ..."
5. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"... the tide jist at the nip, as it is now, I see a whole pile of shoveller-ducks
snabbling in the mud, and busy as dogfish in herring time. ..."
6. The Angler's Note-book and Naturalist's Record: A Repertory of Fact, Inquiry (1880)
"... as I was a-cruising down these flats about sun-up, the tide just at the nip,
as it is now, I see a whole pile of shoveller-ducks snabbling in the mud, ..."
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