[Invented by ‘Lewis Carroll’ (C. L. Dodgson) in The Hunting of the Snark (1876).] An imaginary animal. Also Comb.
1879. Temple Bar, Nov., 391. Hunting for snarkes is a very pleasant occupation, if you do but make-believe strong enough.
1888. Lees & Clutterbuck, B. C. 1887, xxvi. 297. There is quite a Snark-hunting ring about it.
1895. K. Grahame, Golden Age, 90. Some sinuous and snarklike conflict on the mat.
