Also snapwork [f. SNAP-.]

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  † 1.  Sc. A firelock. Obs.

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1568.  Satir. Poems Reform., xlvii. 53. Snapwark, adew, fra dagmen dow nocht stand.

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1676.  Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiog., xi. (1848), 298. 400 men with bows and long Snap works.

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a. 1689.  W. Cleland, Poems (1697), 12 (Jam.). Right well mounted of their Gear:… With Durk, and Snap-work, and Snuff-mill. Ibid., 34. Some with snapwarks, some with bowes.

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  attrib.  1653.  Urquhart, Rabelais, I. lv. The buts and marks for shooting with a snap work-gun [Fr. l’arquebuse].

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  2.  Snap-shot photography.

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1889.  Photogr. News, XXXIII. 266/2. A very necessary thing in quick snapwork in the streets.

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