dial. [Imitative: cf. next.] A sharp blow or impact; the sound made by this.
1849. Boy’s own Bk., 12. Spans and snops. This is a very simple game; one player first shoots his marble, the second then endeavours to strike or snop it, or otherwise to shoot his own within a span of it.
1871–. in south-western dial. glossaries.
1881. Jefferies, Wood Magic, II. iv. 110. His body … rebounded with a snop, and he fell disabled and insensible to the earth.
