[f. SNOUT sb.1]
1. trans. To finish off with a snout.
1753. Songs & Poems Costume (Percy Soc.), 230. Hang a small bugle cap on, as big as a crown, Snout it off with a flower vulgo dict. a pompoon.
2. trans. and intr. To root, dig up, or grub, with or as with the snout.
1857. G. H. Kingsley, Sport & Trav. (1900), 452. He would … snout and jigger about the stones in a most unsalmon-like manner.
1884. Stevenson, Lett. (1899), I. vi. 306. The brutal and licentious public, snouting in Mudie’s wash-trough.
1888. Daily News, 29 March, 3/2. Snouting, grubbing, and biting their ditch … deep enough for great ocean ships to sail through.
