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Definition of Snorters
1. snorter [n] - See also: snorter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snorters
Literary usage of Snorters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"When the upper yard- arm rises above the heel of the top-gallant-mast, take off
the grommet—slip on the lifts and braces, over the snorters, gathering up ..."
2. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce, United States Naval Academy (1898)
"When the upper yard-arm rises within reach of the man on the topmast cap, take
off the groin met, slip on the lifts and braces over the snorters, ..."
3. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1884)
"NOTE.—The outer ends of snorters are generally plaited like sennit, that they
may lie flat, and permit the eye of the lift and brace to fit over snugly. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
""And that no varlot may repine, To labourer Tom I give tho swine: snorters
collected with great pains, And all the store of swill and grains. ..."
5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"... and snorters. I suppose he thinks Anything will be better than a liee-man."
•• Oh, that is it, is it ?" said the other. " There is an idiotic moon-calf ..."
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