verb. (old).—1.  Generic for force: e.g., to rifle or plunder, to arrest, to kill; to eat greedily (GROSE).

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  1724.  J. HARPER, ‘Frisky Moll’s Song’ in THURMOND’S Harlequin Sheppard [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 41].

        But fileing of a rumbo ken,
    My Boman is SNABBLED again.

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  1752.  SMOLLETT, A Faithful Narrative, in Works (1901, xii. 184). The very cull who hath a warrant against me for SNABBLING his peeter and queer Joseph.

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  2.  (venery).—To copulate: see RIDE.

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