[f. SNORE v.]
1. One who snores.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 462/1. Snorare, stertor.
1611. Cotgr., Ronfleur, a snorer, a snorter.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, xliii. (1737), 174. Old Goodman Æolus, the Snorer.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pickle (1779), II. lvii. 155. The face of the gaping snorer.
1864. Dasent, Jest & Earnest (1873), I. 49. Our friend … is not the Club sporer whose feats he recalls so painfully.
1875. Emerson, Lett. & Social Aims, i. 40. This unwritten play…, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
2. A stiff breeze or wind.
1871. Daily News, 6 Nov., 5/7. We lay our course famously, running … before a regular snorer—a strong sea on [etc.].
